Trudeau in Scotland for COP26, first UN climate talks appearance since 2015
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It's 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.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Scotland for the 26th meeting of the UN‘s climate group.
It’s the first time he 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.
Canada’s emissions have risen more than three per cent since 2016, the most of any G7 nation, but Trudeau has substantially upped the ante in his climate plan over the last 12 months.
That includes promising to end the sale of gas-powered cars and create an emissions-free power grid, both by 2035, as well as capping emissions from oil and gas and then forcing them downward, by no later than 2025.
The COP 26 meeting comes on the heels of a G20 summit in Rome that Trudeau characterized as a partial victory.
“There’s no question that Canada and a number of other countries would have liked stronger language and stronger commitments on the fight against climate change than others,” Trudeau said at his closing news conference.
“But we did make significant progress on recognizing 1.5 degrees is the ambition we need to share.”
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