Commonwealth summit discusses climate change, extremism

The Prime Minister emphasized that Canada intends to work closely with its provinces, territories and worldwide partners to reduce carbon emissions and grow a climate-resilient global economy.

French President Francois Hollande is playing host to to the 21st United Nations “council of the parties”, also known as COP21.

The initiative, involving tens of billions of dollars in total, is the marquee event as two weeks of climate negotiations get underway at the UN-sponsored conference known as COP21.

“They are committed to making increased investments in existing technologies and new breakthrough technologies to lower the cost of emissions reductions”, the former USA government official said, adding that Gates is particularly concerned about alleviating the “energy poverty” that denies power to millions of people in India and elsewhere. “We must leave them a viable planet”. As IARI (Indian Agricultural Research Institute) Climate Change scientist Dr Naresh Kumar Soora said in an exclusive, India should seek agriculture to be spared from the climate change purview in view of the subsistence of two-third of the mankind’s dependence on food security.

Before lunching with Hollande at the French presidential palace, the recently elected Canadian prime minister visited the sites of the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.

“What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshalling our best efforts to save it”, he told the morning plenary.

The 2015 Commonwealth summit has just ended in Malta’s capital city of Valleta.

Trudeau had several bilateral meetings scheduled on Monday, including a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the King of Jordan.

“We remain committed to the fact that Russia’s interference in Ukraine must cease; that we stand with the Ukrainian people and expect the president to engage fully in the Minsk peace process”, Trudeau said earlier this month at the G20 summit in Antalya, Turkey.

Trudeau, who has acknowledged that past governments – including Liberals – have failed to meet emission-cutting targets, said there “can be no laggards”.

“If we’re serious about climate change, doing something about greenhouse gases, Canada can actually have a big vision of contributing technology that will help clean up the transition energies like coal”, said Wall.

ZAMBIA is to benefit from the 5 million British pounds to be made available by the British Government to help countries build capacity to counter extremism and terrorism taking hold around the country.