Patricia Scotland

The Commonwealth can learn from Canada's efforts at reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, Prince Charles told the heads of governments at the opening of their summit in Kigali, Rwanda.

Leaders of Commonwealth nations are expected to call for increased climate action at a meeting in Rwanda this week, ahead of the United Nations climate change summit in the seaside resort of Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt later this year.

It was 30 years ago this month that the Commonwealth signed a declaration in Malaysia pointing to the degradation of the environment by "the burning of fossil fuels."