Thank you.
To further demonstrate Canada's commitment towards achieving a new climate agreement, $300 million in funding pledged to the Green Climate Fund was announced in November 2014. The Green Climate Fund's strong focus on helping the poorest countries with adaptation and promoting private sector investment will play a key role in addressing climate change globally.
As I mentioned in my opening remarks, Canada has fully delivered on its commitment and has provided $1.2 billion in new and additional climate change financing under fast-start financing. Examples of those projects are: in Chile, we supported solar plants for the mining sector; in Indonesia, we have the world's largest geothermal facility; in Mexico and Colombia, there are mitigations on short-lived climate pollutants or on gas facilities, in partnership with the Canadian private sector; in Haiti, we help communities reduce vulnerability to natural disasters through the construction of irrigation corridors to increase agricultural production; and Parks Canada is providing expertise to Colombia, Kenya, and Mexico to help maintain and restore natural parks and other protected areas and inform people about climate change adaptation.
Thank you.