When and where will Canada PM to attend Copenhagen climate meeting (AP)?”
TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper’s spokesman said. Dimitri Soudas announced Thursday that Harper decided to attend one day after U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced their attendance at the U.N. talks. Soudas said Harper’s decision was based on the fact that now ”a critical mass of world leaders will be attending.” Soudas did not indicate on what day or days Harper would be there. Harper’s participation at the conference is a change of course for Canada’s Conservative government, which has consistently downplayed expectations for the conference, where it was hoped the global community would agree on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. Only a week ago at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore, Harper told reporters that the assembled leaders shared ”a pretty strong consensus . . . that the countrie
Canada’s prime minister is reversing his position and will attend a United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen next month, Stephen Harper’s spokesman said. Dimitri Soudas announced Thursday that Harper decided to attend one day after U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao announced their attendance at the U.N. talks. Soudas said Harper’s decision was based on the fact that now ”a critical mass of world leaders will be attending.” Soudas did not indicate on what day or days Harper would be there. Harper’s participation at the conference is a change of course for Canada’s Conservative government, which has consistently downplayed expectations for the conference, where it was hoped the global community would agree on a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol. Only a week ago at an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore, Harper told reporters that the assembled leaders shared ”a pretty strong consensus . . . that the countries of the world r
