Justin Trudeau to officially address Paris climate summit

Prince Charles today delivered the keynote address at the Paris climate conference, urging world leaders including Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to think of their grandchildren in seeking a deal.

On Monday at the climate conference proper, Trudeau has scheduled bilateral meetings with King Abdullah of Jordan and Lebanon’s Prime Minister Tammam Salam, where the issue of Canada’s resettlement of Syrian refugees from Jordanian and Lebanese camps will dominate. “And no time to waste”. They help mitigate the impacts of climate changes, are often the most cost effective approach to carbon sequestration and storage, and can also be incorporated into strategies at the local, provincial and national levels.

The provinces will be looking to the federal government for money to help pay for their climate-change commitments.

Multiple sources are saying an announcement Monday will see tens of billions of dollars going towards clean energy technology to fight climate change.

The climate activist group 350.org, which had organized some gatherings, distanced itself from the violence, and thousands of other people joined peaceful demonstrations in other European capitals on Sunday.

“Because we must leave our children more than a planet free of terrorism…”

‘When the planet speaks we have no choice but to listen, and it has been speaking to us with a daunting eloquence over the last few years.

Hollande said climate disruption spawns conflict as clouds bring storms.

“It’s potentially a small part of the solution”, said May, a Canadian delegate to the COP21 climate conference.

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

But the positive work Trudeau committed us to will stretch well into the future.

French President Francois Hollande appeared to give his blessing to Canada’s proposed withdrawal of its fighter jets from the bombing campaign against Islamic militants after meeting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday at the Elysee Palace.

Asked by Global News’ Mike Le Couteur and several other journalists attending the climate change summit in Paris to clarify the timeline for Ottawa’s overall plan, Trudeau did not provide a direct answer. In Paris yesterday for the UN’s 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) summit, Trudeau was ebullient in his support.

Former Liberal governments failed miserably at meeting their Kyoto Protocol targets and the Conservatives were nowhere near on-pace to achieve their targets from the Copenhagen accord, he said.

Trudeau “has to show that he not only leads a new government, but a new kind of government”, said Marshall, who is also in Paris.

Trudeau announced in Malta that Canada will contribute $2.65 billion over five years to a climate adaptation and mitigation fund, and on Monday he added a pledge of $300 million to clean technology innovation as part of a 20-country project headlined by Hollande, Obama and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Those extra funds could come from a tax on bunker fuels used in global aviation and shipping, which if they represented a country would be among the world’s top 10 polluters, according to Dale Marshall, national program manager with Environmental Defense Canada.