| Environment and Climate Change Canada
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Today, Canada and the United Kingdom hosted a virtual round table with Mark Carney, UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance, and finance leaders from North America and Europe to discuss the importance of phasing out market support for unabated coal power, from climate-risk and clean-energy-investment perspectives. Following their discussion, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson; the UK’s Minister of State, the Right Honourable Anne-Marie Trevelyan; and Mark Carney issued the following statements:
Our countries have a long-standing friendship. Our shared history, parliamentary traditions and democratic values lie at the heart of this bond, and the challenges of the past year show that the links between our countries continue to grow stronger.
We, the G7 Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States of America and the High Representative of the European Union, are united in condemning the politically motivated arrest and detention of Alexey Navalny.
Today, the Secretary-General, António Guterres, co-chaired a High-Level Replenishment Conference for the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund together with H.E. Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone; H.E. Abdalla Hamdok, Prime Minister of the Republic of Sudan; H.E. Marc Garneau, Foreign Minister of Canada, Chair of the Peacebuilding Commission and H.E. Heiko Maas, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany.
As per the Letters Patent Constituting the Office of the Governor General, issued in 1947, an Administrator assumes the powers and authorities of the Governor General when the office is vacant.
Today, the Honourable Bill Blair, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, issued the following statement on the suspension of sale of decommissioned RCMP vehicles.
