Canada

First thing he did was kill the carbon levy, misbranded by our US owned media as a "tax".

Oh has he been? Like the attacking unions and workers strikes, fucking around with pipelines, helping private O&G companies take our stuff, or floating the idea of privatizing airports? Or his sovereign wealth fund that doesn’t actually work the way one of those should? There are all the ads I see about how the government is supposedly saving me money but the net effect if their actions is doing worse for me than before. Oh, and let us not forget about how he’s giving over $8bil in 50% off development fee funding to Ontario so that private home builders can pocket some extra money while they continue to raise prices, all paid for by us because he won’t tax rich people.

Yea, real statesmanlike behaviour. He’s just another piece of shit conservative whose only positive is that he doesn’t seem to hate gay people.

The people who appointed him UN special envoy for climate action probably thought he was a climate guy. The people who read his book (not me) seemed to think he was a climate guy. The people who believed his election campaign promises might've thought he was a climate guy. He probably still thinks he's a climate guy.

He talks a lot about the importance of climate change, so it comes as a surprise to quite a few people that he doesn't seem to be in favour of doing anything about it.

What kbal said, but also, let's be real here: nobody who's not taking the climate emergency seriously is a "true statesman". It's just plain unserious and irresponsible, like calling a junkie who says "oh I'll just have one shot of heroin this Friday and I'm going to check myself into rehab Monday" committed to getting clean. That's not statesmanship, it's just profound luck of seriousness in the face of overwhelming evidence. Any politician who's not "a climate guy" is by definition a clown.