Vancouver mayor talks climate with Prime Minister Trudeau in Paris

“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. Its diplomats held up finalisation of CHOGM’s climate change statement and the country has been criticised for a lack of ambition on cuts. “Thirty-one of our 53 members are small states and 25 are small island developing states, which are most vulnerable to Climate change”.

Earlier, the Commonwealth and the Governments of India, Malta, Mauritius and Sri Lanka announced the new trade financing fund to help boost trade and investment flows in small countries.

Mr Turnbull flies from Malta to the COP21 talks on Sunday, ready to stress the key roles of technology and innovation in addressing the climate change challenge. There is a strong commitment, not only from the Government but from the business communities and civil society.

The Prime Minister said Australia’s current reduction targets were “very reasonable” and ones the government was satisfied it would achieve.

Because its membership includes industrialised G7 powers like Britain and Canada, emerging giants like India and tiny island microstates such as the Maldives, agreement in the Commonwealth has historically boded well for deals being struck beyond its bounds.

Among the few things concluded at the flop 2009 Copenhagen global climate change summit were those things agreed beforehand by the Commonwealth.

‘Climate change unites us, it puts us all in the same canoe.

The two addressed the media with Trudeau touching on climate change and what both Canada and Australia can do as energy exporting nations to help the environment.

He said he would host a conference in London in May on tackling corruption.

Sharma said leaders were concerned about the “scourge of terrorism”, saying: “The phrase “politics by murder” was used”.

Trudeau will be joined in Paris this weekend by the premiers of Alberta, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan as Canada attempts to portray a united front on the climate file after attracting an unwanted global reputation as a laggard, or worse, an obstructionist.