Ratify the Paris agreement and develop a Pan-Canadian framework for combating climate change.

What success looks like

Canada ratified the Paris Agreement and created the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change.

Government's narrative on progress

The Paris Agreement entered into force in November 2016 and the government continues to work with all countries on its implementation. In December 2016, first ministers adopted the Pan-Canadian Framework (PCF) on Clean Growth and Climate Change. Developed with provinces and territories in collaboration with Indigenous peoples, and informed by input from Canadians across the country, the PCF is Canada’s comprehensive plan to reduce emissions across all sectors of the economy, accelerate clean economic growth, and build resilience to the impacts of climate change. To support and complement its commitments under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Canada co-hosted, along with the European Union and China, two ministerial meetings on climate action that brought together key countries to discuss outstanding climate negotiating issues. Canada also ratified the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol in November 2017, which will phase down powerful greenhouse gases. Canada was instrumental in achieving the required number of ratifications at the Montreal Protocol meeting, allowing the Kigali Amendment to come into force in January 2019. In November 2017, Canada launched the Powering Past Coal Alliance with the United Kingdom to accelerate the global phase-out of traditionally coal-fired electricity.

Note: this is the government's own description, not an independent assessment.