Justin Trudeau speaking to the UN COP21 climate summit
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaking to the UN COP21 climate summit in Paris.
Sunday night, Canada surprised a world of nations and negotiators in closed-door climate talks in Paris by endorsing a bolder, more ambitious target for cutting greenhouse gases than the UN climate change summit is officially aiming for.
Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna told a stunned crowd that she wants the Paris agreement to restrict planetary warming to just 1.5 Celsius warming.
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