Charles Michel

Formal talks are expected to begin today between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and two top heads of the European Union.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off a two-day summit with the top two heads of the European Union on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023, night in a small brewpub on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean in Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city of St. John's.

Trudeau's office noted that the meeting takes place at one of the ports closest to Europe at a time when both sides of the Atlantic are expanding trade in clean technology.

French President Emmanuel Macron is expected to urge world leaders and institutions to safeguard biodiversity as they work to curb climate change and support human welfare at a global summit starting on Friday, September 3, 2021, in southern France.

European Union leaders reached a hard-fought deal on Friday, December 11, 2020, to cut the bloc’s net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by the end of the decade compared with 1990 levels, avoiding a hugely embarrassing deadlock ahead of a U.N. climate meeting this weekend.

The political silence in Ottawa was deafening on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, after Donald Trump's bombastic declarations of victory in the U.S. presidential election and his threat to take his re-election fight to the Supreme Court.

Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union’s new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, December 12, 2019, and unfurled a huge banner warning of a “climate emergency,” hours before the bloc’s leaders gather for a summit focused on plans to combat global warming.