Canada and the United States discussed more ways of “limiting global warming to 1.5ºC” and “achieving net-zero emissions by 2050” during an online meeting on Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.S. President Joe Biden had their first virtual bilateral meeting on Tuesday. “That certainly includes things like working on vehicle emission standards for Canada and the U.S., again, looking to see how we can accelerate work to both enhance the energy efficiency of the existing types of vehicles that are being sold, but also to look at how we can accelerate the deployment of zero-emission technologies,” Jonathon Wilkinson, Canada’s environment and climate change minister, told the Global News, after his discussion with the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry. He added that the auto manufacturing sections of both countries are “completely integrated,” so it makes more sense for Canada and the United States to have integrated …
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