As Trudeau heads to COP26, a new analysis gives his climate plan a good grade
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Trudeau has substantially upped the ante in his climate plan over the last year, including promising to end the sale of gas-powered cars and create an emissions-free power grid.
A new analysis suggests the Liberal climate plan could meet Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions targets for the first time before the end of this decade.
The study by Clean Prosperity published today could give some heft to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s credentials as he heads to planned climate discussions at the upcoming G20 summit and United Nations COP 26 meeting.
Trudeau en route to Europe this morning to attend those summits, though his first stop on the six-day trip is an official visit to the Netherlands.
He plans to address the Dutch parliament Friday, and meet later in the day with Prime Minister Mark Rutte, before heading to Rome for the first in-person gathering of G20 leaders since 2019.
On Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 he will be in Glasgow for the 26th meeting of the UN’s climate group, the first time Trudeau will be at a COP meeting since the Paris agreement was signed just weeks after he first became prime minister in 2015.
Leaders’ summits are only held at every fifth meeting and the Glasgow negotiations are a year delayed because of COVID-19.
Catherine Abreu, executive director of Destination Zero, said Canada and Trudeau brought a lot to the table in Paris.
“But since then, there’s been a growing recognition of the disconnect between the rhetoric that Canada brings to those kinds of conferences and the actual on-the-ground progress,” she said.
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