Paris Climate Change Talks: India Should Focus on Agriculture Fund

“We will not sacrifice growth”.

The prime minister wrapped up his comments by noting that Canada looks forward to playing a constructive role at the Paris summit. “We’re here to help, to build an agreement that will do our children and grand-children proud”.

Prime minister Justin Trudeau also addressed the dignitaries gathered, making it clear Canada’s on-board. During his meeting with the Israeli leader, Trudeau was invited to visit Israel, CTV’s Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife tweeted.

Part of that show was a $300 million per year commitment to a new initiative being led by Microsoft founder Bill Gates, U.S. President Barack Obama and French President Francois Hollande.

“Leaders are massively expressing they are even more enthused and committed to attending the climate change conference in Paris because of the opportunity it offers to also stand in solidarity with Paris and with the people of France”, he said.

Trudeau had been asked last week about the nexus of climate and terror after United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon raised the link at a news conference in Malta during a Commonwealth summit.

Among the few things concluded at the flop 2009 Copenhagen global climate change summit were items that had been agreed beforehand by the Commonwealth.

“It’s going to be a different answer for every province”, she told CTV’s Power Play Monday.

Trudeau and his Liberal government say they believe Canada can contribute more effectively in other ways to the coalition mission against the Islamic state than by conducting only two per cent of the bombing missions.

“We came up with a plan … that involves record levels of investment in green infrastructure, including $20 billion over 10 years”, the prime minister noted.

Canada also made a $30-million contribution towards a $250-million fund to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to immediate climate threats.

“They signed an global communiqué on fossil fuel subsidy reform and late last week they committed $2.65-billion to climate financing”.

Meanwhile, thousands of people are expected to turn up to march in global climate demonstrations in cities across Canada. 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.

On a brighter note, Guilbeault said Canada is “emerging from some dark ages” on the climate-change file, noting colleagues in other environmental organizations around the globe are “so happy that Canada is back at the table”. “We can see it with terrorism and we can see it when it comes to the environment”.