Justin Trudeau met the Queen of England and totally charmed her, duh!
The new funding amounts to a doubling of Canada’s so-called “fast-start climate financing” for developing nations and comes just days before the United Nations climate change conference starts in Paris on November 30.
Host country Malta and the Commonwealth summit welcomed Canadian Prime Minister “Jacques Trudeau” on Thursday.
Dion’s characterization of “lively” Commonwealth climate talks hints at the challenge ahead.
Meanwhile, tiny Tuvalu – an archipelago of low-lying islands in the South Pacific – is in danger of being submerged by rising sea levels due to global warming.
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.
He maintains that, while negotiations will be “intense”, the two-week-long COP21 conference will end with “a unanimous, robust agreement that will be a step in the right direction to fight climate change”.
TRUDEAU will be in Valletta, Malta, to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting being held from November 27 to 29. Trudeau and Cameron talked about a wide range of issues including fighting terrorism, climate change and accepting Syrian refugees.
Our young, bold, charismatic prime minister aka Monsieur Justin Trudeau had the honor of meeting the Queen of England in Buckingham Palace for a private audience earlier this week and he totally charmed her, duh! Trudeau is keeping a promise he made several months ago during the electoral campaign to withdraw Canadian jets from the bombing campaign in Syria and Iraq.
Hollande said he was invited to speak to the Commonwealth prior to the deadly terror attacks in Paris two weeks ago.
Trudeau said: “I am thrilled to have expressed Canada’s commitment to further fostering the unique relationship we share with Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as our Sovereign, and I look forward to Her Majesty’s participation at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta”.
Hollande told reporters after the climate change session that what he sought in Paris was “a binding agreement, a universal agreement, one that is ambitious”. He jokingly commented that although the two countries are very different in size, they are not different in worth.