Trudeau added: “Canada and the United Kingdom remain strong partners, with a common history and shared values that define us: democracy, peace, rule of law, and opportunity for all”.
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Canada will give C$2.65 billion ($1.98 billion) over the next five years, the newly elected Trudeau announced during a trip to Malta, where he was meeting the heads of Commonwealth countries.
French President Francois Hollande is to deliver an unusual address on climate issues to the Commonwealth meeting in advance of the Paris talks.
The money raised for the Green Climate Fund will be spent on projects that help developing nations in regions like sub-Saharan Africa adapt to the impacts of climate change, as well as put in place their own greenhouse gas mitigation plans.
Canadian new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will travel to Europe for various bilateral and multilateral meetings focused on climate change, and building ties with Britain as well as the Commonthwealth. “The ingenuity of the engineers working in Canada’s oil and gas sector is world class, and the technologies they develop for use here at home can be exported to countries with less environmental expertise”.
Trudeau told reporters he remains optimistic India will come onboard for the next, post-2020 climate pact being negotiated in Paris.
“The last time we met you were much taller”, Mr Trudeau said, according to CBC.
Instead, a concrete emissions reductions target depends on the federal government hammering out a national climate action plan with Canada’s provinces and territories after the Conference of Parties (COP) 21 talks wrap up in Paris next month.
Rachel Notley spoke Saturday morning ahead of her departure. But it will take more than the measures discussed at this week’s first ministers’ summit to get Canada up to speed in tackling what U.S. President Barack Obama has called the greatest threat to future generations.
“I want to be able to demonstrate Alberta is united with the rest of Canada in its commitment to take collaborative action on climate change”, Notley said.
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Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is already in France and on Sunday will join other political leaders in a visit to the Bataclan concert hall, where 90 people died November 13, to lay flowers in the memory of the 130 victims of the Paris attacks.
