Canada lagging in its pledge on climate finance

Canada can, and should, increase its support to meet its fair share of the US$100-billion in climate finance and reaffirm its intention to deliver a much more ambitious 2030 emissions reduction target ahead of the COP26 summit next year in Glasgow.

Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is likely to represent Canada at the next climate conference in 2021, in Glasgow. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BAN KI-MOON

December 9, 2020

Five years ago, in Paris on Dec. 12, the global community delivered a message of hope when 195 countries came together to adopt the world’s first universal climate agreement. This was a source of great pride to me, as secretary-general of the United Nations at the t...

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