What does Canada have to prove at COP31?

First of all, it might be an awkward one for Canada this time. Extreme weather will be in focus for the next two weeks at the United Nations annual climate summit. COP 31 got underway today in Turkey. Canada could take a larger role this time around, with the United States backing away from climate talks. Representatives from nearly 200 countries are taking part in the summit. Anaya, what will Canada's contribution be at the summit? First of all, it might be an awkward one for Canada this time. Canada is showing up in a big way. There's a significant... Diplomatic contingent heading to the conference, led by the Federal Environment Minister. But countries will be looking at Canada's actions over the past year and be a little skeptical. There's been a push for major projects, fast-tracking environmental approvals, building a new oil pipeline to the West Coast and expanding LNG exports. And that all puts Canada in a tricky situation. I do think that there will be some heat from groups about the step backs on some of the climate policies that we've seen over the past year or so. I think it'll be up and down. I don't think it'll be all good or all bad. I think it'll be somewhere in the middle. And depending what the topic of the day is, it might be a little bit rocky for Canada. So Canada does have some priorities that it will probably be able to push. One big theme will be climate finance. What's been happening across the world is that foreign aid budgets have been cut. The US has essentially ended its foreign aid agency, but other countries like the UK and Germany have also paid back their foreign aid budgets. Canada, on the other hand, has recommitted. To international climate finance, that's money for developing countries to fight climate change. Canada promised $5.9 billion over the next five years and a kind of ambitious aim to mobilize up to $13 billion from other sources. That gives Canada some clout at these talks to push other major donor countries to up their climate finance as well. Another big priority will be just transition from fossil fuels. That's something that Canada is trying to do domestically with its Sustainable Jobs Act. And we'll see Canada probably pushing for that from other countries as well.