Canada and the United Kingdom have enticed 18 other nations to adopt their mutual goal of weaning themselves off coal-fired power — but at least two provinces are trying to negotiate their way out of the federal government’s own domestic plan.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna was all smiles Thursday as she and her British counterpart officially launched the Global Alliance to Power Past Coal at the United Nations climate change talks in Germany.
Eighteen countries, five provinces and two states signed onto the Canada-U.K. alliance.
«We’re seeing huge momentum for this move away from coal and towards clean power,» McKenna said in a conference call after the event in Bonn, Germany.
The world’s biggest emitters, like China, the United States and India, were not there. Neither was Germany, one of the world’s loudest voices in the climate change battle but whose domestic reliance on coal is still stopping it from promising to phase it out.
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