Not One Word On US-Canada Climate Agreements During Trudeau Visit To DC
President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada voiced commitments to work together on a range of issues at a meeting Monday at the White House, from trade to border security. But they gave no indication that the two leaders talked about climate change.
Last year, Trudeau and then-President Barack Obama agreed on a goal of cutting emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, by 40 to 45 percent by 2025. The pledge came as part of a larger set of commitments on energy and Arctic policy.
Obama said at the time that the two countries were "responsible for a lot of the carbon pollution that is causing climate change. If we don't agree, if we're not aggressive, if we're not far-sighted, if we don't pool our resources around the research, and development and clean energy agenda required to solve this problem, then other countries won't step up and it won't get solved."
The joint statement issued by Trump and Trudeau on Monday did include a mention of the two countries' collaboration "in the clean energy sphere," but made no reference to methane or the March agreement. Also left unspoken was a joint pledge announced in June by the U.S., Canada and Mexico to work towards developing at least half the continent's electricity from carbon-free sources, including nuclear, by 2025. The pact relied on Obama's successor staying committed.
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