| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Today, the Parliamentary Secretary for the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Neil R. Ellis, on behalf of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced an investment of approximately $2.7 million from the Low Carbon Economy Fund to support a project that converts food waste into renewable energy in Petawawa, Ontario.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| media advisories
Media representatives are advised that Canada and the United Kingdom are co-hosting the Powering Past Coal Alliance’s virtual Global Summit from March 2 to 4, 2021. The Summit will convene governments, businesses and civil society to deliver new coal phase-out commitments, share insights and experience, and identify opportunities to increase global action at COP26 in December.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, announced that the Government of Canada will invest $402,400 over three years to conserve and restore habitat for species at risk in the greater Redberry Lake Biosphere Reserve area. Located in West-Central Saskatchewan on the traditional lands of the Métis, Mistawasis Nêhiyawak, and Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, the habitat spans 112,000 hectares and supports many species, including twenty-two listed species at risk, such as the piping plover and the bobolink.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, along with the Honourable George Heyman, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Strategy and the Honourable Katrine Conroy, Minister of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, are committed to a target date for the completion of this agreement within one year.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| backgrounders
In conjunction with the development of the new bilateral Nature Agreement, the provincial and federal governments will better protect species at risk through two pilot projects aimed at improving policies, processes, and information sharing.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Today, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, launched the Net-Zero Advisory Body, an independent group of 14 experts from across the country, who will provide the Government of Canada with advice on the best pathways to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. The Advisory Body is a key part of the proposed Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act tabled in the House of Commons last fall, which would enshrine Canada’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 into law.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Following the release of the Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership, in which President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau launched a high level climate ambition Ministerial between Canada and the United States, Minister Wilkinson and Special Presidential Climate Envoy John Kerry met yesterday to get straight to work.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
| media advisories
Media representatives are advised that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, will meet with U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, today at 1:00 p.m. (EST). Following yesterday’s bilateral meeting with President Biden and Prime Minister Trudeau and the release of the ambitious Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership, the Minister and Climate Envoy Kerry will get straight to work by further coordinating bilateral climate cooperation between the U.S. and Canada to increase ambition aligned to the Paris Agreement and net-zero objectives, and to explore opportunities to align policies and approaches to create jobs, while tackling climate change and inequality, and enhancing adaptation and resilience to climate impacts. Following the meeting, Minister Wilkinson will provide an update on next steps and take questions from media representatives.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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To jointly address climate change and demonstrate global leadership on the climate crisis, Canada and the United States have joined to form a high-level dialogue. This dialogue will elevate and advance long-standing cooperation between the two countries, which share many of the same risks and can benefit from many of the same opportunities.
| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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On February 18, 2021, in Granby courthouse, Pete Persons Terre Sable & Gravier Inc. was sentenced and fined a total of $15,000 after pleading guilty to two offences under the Species at Risk Act. The fine will be directed to the Government of Canada’s Environmental Damages Fund.
