Trudeau mum on climate plan timeline

Vancouver’s mayor sat down with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Paris today to discuss the importance of collaboration between the federal government and Canada’s municipalities in fighting climate change.

“Climate change actually unites us, puts us all in the same canoe”, Baron Waqa, president of the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru, told a news conference Sunday at the end of the biennial Commonwealth summit in Malta.

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PRIME Minister Dr Keith Rowley joined with 52 other Commonwealth Heads of State in supporting the Commonwealths decision to establish a unit to counter violent extermism and strengthen their collaborative efforts to combat the activities of groups such as the Islamic State (ISIS).

The money will support a wide range of technologies, Gates said Monday – “biofuels, carbon capture, high wind, fission, fusion – we’re unbiased, but it has to be clean and possible to scale up cheaply”.

Canada is also showing that it’s serious about putting a price on carbon by joining the World Bank’s Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition.

“For too long our negotiators have been stuck in their defensive trenches playing a zero-sum, burden-sharing game, rather than looking over the edge towards the smart, healthy and profitable opportunities that sustainable development offers”.

“But we also have to act militarily, ” said Hollande, adding Trudeau had affirmed Canada’s solidarity in the global fight and that each country should contribute “within their own means”.

“I’m not choosing between the fight against terror and the fight against global climate change”, he said during his opening address. “What we are asking for is absolutely fair and the developed world must recognize that they have to atone for the historical carbon emissions that they have been putting out in the atmosphere for over 150 years in their search for prosperity”, he noted.

“It lines up very well with what President Obama and others are calling for in Mission Innovation”, Trudeau said at a news conference just prior to the splashy Mission Innovation launch.

“We are acting as facilitators so small traders in small jurisdictions can penetrate new markets”.

The Commonwealth leaders called for developed nations to spend $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing countries deal with the effects of climate change.

During the conference on Monday, Canada was credited with a $30-million contribution to help the world’s poorest countries deal with immediate climate threats.