Guilbeault, who is also a co-founder of Quebec environmental group Équiterre, also took stressed that his role as environment minister means he’s accountable to Canada, not the environmental activists expected to attend COP26 in Glasgow, which begins Oct.
Indeed, experts do not expect Ottawa to unveil a series of new climate targets in Glasgow over the course of the two-week conference.
The UN summit, known as COP26 and delayed one year by COVID-19, is intended to finalize the rule book for the Paris accord, including how carbon emissions trading can work between countries and what each country has to report about progress toward climate goals.
Meanwhile, negotiations ahead of the Group of 20 summit in Rome dragged into Friday, stuck on energy and climate issues.
“That’s pretty important because you don’t want to get countries double counting their emissions reductions,” Bernstein said, noting that carbon credits used in Quebec are sometimes generated from emissions reductions in California.
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