Trudeau rocked the House of Commons on Monday with 'credible allegations' linking agents of India's government to the deadly shooting of a Sikh leader in B.C.
The day before departing for New York, Trudeau rocked the House of Commons with “credible allegations” linking agents ofIt’s a striking contextual backdrop for the week ahead at the, a place where aspirational visions of a prosperous and peaceful future often have to do battle with stark political realities.
Modi, however, confirmed earlier this month that he wouldn’t be attending the assembly in person. External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar is standing in. Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on relentlessly, the global angst augmented by last week’s ominous meeting in Vladivostok between President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
And the UN’s ambitious effort to check off a laundry list of sustainable development goals _ a particular focus for Trudeau _ has largely stalled, hampered by political intransigence and sluggish post-pandemic economies.“It’s a serious moment in the life of the world,” said Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the UN.
“The world is increasingly coming to grips with the reality that climate change is not a future event, it’s a current event,” Rae said.“It’s a today issue, and it’s as much about resilience, adaptation and really investing in infrastructure and other ways of protecting people’s health and safety for the current crisis, which will be ongoing.”
Instead of talking about ambitious but unrealistic new emissions targets, the UN will instead press members on how they plan to hit existing ones, said Catherine Abreu, founder and executive director of the climate group Destination Zero.“This is a moment of honesty and inflection,” Abreu told a news conference last week.“We need to get real about the fact that despite the targets that we have been setting over the course of the last decade, we are not delivering on those promises.
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