Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will fly to Europe later this week touting Canada’s climate plan and the progress of the post-pandemic recovery at leaders’ summits in Italy and Scotland.
Trudeau’s six-day trip, his first since the September elections brought him back with a second minority government, begins with an official visit to the Netherlands to meet with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Canadian officials said Trudeau will also address Dutch MPs, nearly three years after the day Rutte delivered a speech in Canada’s House of Commons.
Your day trip to the Netherlands will include a visit to the Canadian op-Zoom war cemetery in Bergen and meetings with Dutch clean technology and environmental innovators.
From the Netherlands, Trudeau will travel to Rome for the G20 leaders’ summit, which is the first in-person meeting of the leaders of the world’s largest economies since before the pandemic.
The 2020 G20 summit was to take place in Saudi Arabia, but it moved completely virtual amid the worst global health crisis in a century.
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Recovery from COVID-19 and vaccine equity will be high on the agenda as the world’s richest nations, including Canada, will be forced to do more to help vaccinate the rest of the world.
Climate change will also be a central issue at the G20, which comes just before the United Nations COP26 climate talks begin in Scotland.
Trudeau will fly to Glasgow for the first two days of those negotiations before returning to Canada. It is Trudeau’s second COP meeting as prime minister. The first was in 2015, when the world accepted the Paris agreement setting the goal of keeping global warming well below 2 C.
Some see this year’s COP meetings as the last chance to align plans to achieve the Paris agreement.
This Canadian Press report was first published on October 25, 2021.
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