U.S. President Joe Biden is also expected to call on major economies to join him in bold action at virtual summit of 40 world leaders, running April 22 and 23.
Canada and the United States will push each other toward more ambitious climate goals, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Wednesday, February 24, 2021, after a meeting with special envoy John Kerry.
John Kerry made the remark as the U.S. officially returned to the climate agreement on Friday, 107 days after it left under former president Donald Trump.
The head of the UN Environment Programme called on Paris Agreement signatories to live up to their promise to help poorer nations better adapt to the climate crisis.
If Joe Biden's decision to kill off Keystone XL is supposed to sound the death knell for Canada-U.S. relations, you wouldn't know it from the newly minted president's call sheet.
President-elect Joe Biden's new climate envoy may be the same person who nixed the Keystone XL pipeline expansion in 2015, but the project itself has evolved significantly since then, Canada's U.S. ambassador said on Tuesday, November 24, 2020.
The president of the Canadian Labour Congress says setting climate targets will have to go hand-in-hand with developing a strategy around protecting workers.
The reverberations of Trump’s win are still being felt in Marrakech where delegations from some 200 countries were deliberating the details of the Paris Agreement.
It is estimated that the agreement will cut the global levels of hydroflurocarbons (HFCs) by 80 to 85 per cent by 2047, the World Resources Institute said in a statement.