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With the Paris Agreement rules in place, the UN climate talks are switching focus from process to implementation. But geopolitics and disputes over finance cast a pall.

If Canada wants to be a credible climate leader, it needs to align its export credit agency with the Paris Agreement goals immediately, says a new report from a leading international think tank.

As world leaders gathered for the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) last November, hopes were high for significant breakthroughs over a wide range of climate objectives. At a bare minimum, countries had to reaffirm their commitments through enhanced nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and other pledges to meet the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting surface temperature increases to 2°C above pre-industrial levels by 2100.

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Ahead of summit, more than 100 economists call on G7 countries to commit to shift their finance out of all fossil fuels this year, to enable a green pandemic recovery On June 11-13, world leaders will gather at the G7 summit. There, they plan to adopt an agenda to “build back better from coronavirus and create a greener, more prosperous future”. We, the undersigned economists, believe that this means decisively shifting finance out of fossil fuels, and into clean alternatives worldw...