Canada

In January 2010, California passed regulation over Green House gases by determining the pollution of fuels coming into California: LA times has coverage here:

Canadians used to think of themselves as global citizens, par excellence. Recently, though, this image has taken a battering.

Canada has slightly adjusted its mid-term climate mitigation targets to match US pledges. Canada’s Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, recently announced that Canada has changed its mitigation goals in an effort to harmonize with the Obama administration.

The following op-ed from ONE’s Executive Director Jamie Drummond and Policy Board member John Githongo has just been published in Canada’s Globe and Mail and newspapers across Africa:
As host of this year’s G8 and G20 meetings, Canada is in a great position to lead the essential process of reinvigorating the global campaign against extreme poverty.

Petition Delivered; G7 Leaders Call to Cancel Haiti’s Debt!

Thanks to the more than 400,000 to signed the petition worldwide, the cancellation of Haiti’s debt may be all but a formality at this point.
Yesterday, at 4 p.m.

When you have a minute, check out Canada’s new G8 website.

Adding to the increasing volume of calls asking world leaders to forgive Haiti’s $1 billion debt, Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty yesterday argued that given Haiti’s current focus and priorities, the country should not be burdened by “liabilities of its past.” Flaherty specifically called on Taiwan and Venezuela to follow Canada’s lead of debt [...]

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper today has an op-ed laying out his priorities for the G8 ahead of the G20 Toronto summit in June.

At the conclusion of the Pittsburgh G20 Summit, Canada’s Prime Minister Harper and South Korea’s President Lee Myung-bak announced that they would both host G20 summits. Here at ONE, we were curious to see how this announcement would play out, since South Korea had already been tapped for the next G-20 and Canada was in line for the next G8.
On Monday, Prime Minister Harper announced that Toronto, Canada, will host the G-20 Summit on June 26 and 27, 2010. He was joined by President Myung-ba, who announced that Seoul, South Korea, will host a second G20 in November 2010.