Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague from Orléans. I know of his practical commitment to the environment where he has planted 52,000 trees.
The green climate fund is expected to encourage significant private sector investments to address climate change. This fund is transparent, accountable, and results-based. Yesterday I was pleased to announce that Canada will be contributing $300 million to the green climate fund. Canada's contribution shows our continued leadership toward establishing a new international climate agreement in Paris in 2015, which will include binding obligations from all emitters.
We are proud of the concrete actions we have taken on climate change, and we have done all of this without imposing a carbon—