Watch live: President Obama and Canadian Prime Minster Justin Trudeau hold press conference
By David Roberta and Ljunggren Rampton
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama offered a red-carpet pleasant for Canadian Best Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House on Thursday night, stopping a frosty period in U.S.-Canada relationships and celebrating distributed goals on trade and weather.
"We haven't always conveyed how much we cherish our alliance and ties with this Canadian friends," Obama said in a inviting ceremony.
Both countries started out the entire day by agreeing joint steps to combat weather change, including lowering methane emissions from coal and oil procedures and putting your signature on previous year's Paris weather deal "when feasible."
Methane, which can drip from pipelines and valves, is a robust greenhouse gas, with up to 80 times the probable of skin tightening and to snare the planet's heating.
The countries also focused on reducing emissions of methane by 40 to 45 percent below 2012 levels by 2025, to do something to fight environment change in the Arctic, and rate development of inexperienced technologies.
Obama has much in keeping with Trudeau, in November the intensifying 44-year-old Liberal Get together innovator who required office. He replaced Conservative Stephen Harper, who had hectored the White House for a long time in a failed bid to push through U.S. agreement for the Keystone XL engine oil pipeline.
Trudeau's public visit will be capped by circumstances dinner on Thursday night, making him the first Canadian head to be awarded that honor since 1997.
"Our great countries have been friends quite a while. We together grew up ... and through everything, our great shared achievements speak for themselves," he said in answer Obama.
People in america have been captivated by the photogenic Trudeau, 44, whose paternalfather, Pierre Trudeau, was leading minister from 1968 through 1979, and from 1980 to 1984 again.
Also on the plan for Oval Office discussions are strategies to expedite bilateral trade and travel, and shared regions of global concern which range from Syria to Ukraine.
Trudeau, who's struggling aware of a soft current economic climate and a poor Canadian buck, campaigned on mending strained ties.
But his visit may be overshadowed by the raucous contest to achieve success Obama in the Nov. 8 presidential election. Applicants on both still left and right took anti-free-trade positions.
Obama desires to encourage a unwilling U.S. In January congress to ratify the sprawling Trans-Pacific Collaboration trade pact before he leaves office. Canada is wrestling with the merits of the TPP also.
(Additional reporting by Timothy Gardner in Washington; Enhancing by Peter Cooney and Adam Dalgleish)
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