US, Canada to Work Toward Achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2050

US, Canada to Work Toward Achieving Net Zero Emissions by 2050

U. S. Special Climate Change Envoy John Kerry and his Canadian counterpart, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, will host the ministerial. U. S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that he and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to work toward achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. "We're launching a high-level, climate-ambition ministerial and to align our policies and our goals to achieve net zero emissions by 2050," Biden said in a speech following a bilateral meeting with the Canadian leader, Reuters reported. Like many countries around the world, Canada and the US are facing incredible challenges - from COVID-19, to climate change, to rising inequality. This is our time to act together. And that is what @POTUS Biden and I focused on today. More here: https://t. co/hoasKODKaA pic. twitter. com/ALl96cE2P1 U. S. Special Climate Change Envoy John Kerry and his Canadian counterpart, Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, will host the ministerial. The partnership comes after Biden revoked a key permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, which would have transported 830, 000 barrels a day of carbon-intensive heavy crude from Canada's Alberta to Nebraska, on his first day in office last month - one amid a flurry of executive orders aimed at curbing