Today's «Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership» by President Obama and Canada's new prime minister, Justin Trudeau, contained lots of
welcome environmental commitments, particularly on curbing emissions of methane leaking from existing oil and gas infrastructure.
While ALEC claims not to deny climate change, and says they will be making efforts to be more transparent and
welcoming to divergent views,
environmental groups still question the group's
commitment:
Welcomes the agreement achieved by the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further
Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol on its work pursuant to decisions 1 / CMP.1, 1 / CMP.5 and 1 / CMP.6 in the areas of land use, land - use change and forestry (decision - / CMP.7), emissions trading and the project - based mechanisms (decision - / CMP.7), greenhouse gases, sectors and source categories, common metrics to calculate the carbon dioxide equivalence of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and other methodological issues (decision - / CMP.7) and the consideration of information on potential
environmental, economic and social consequences, including spillover effects, of tools, policies, measures and methodologies available to Annex I Parties (decision - / CMP.7);