COP21: P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan to present UPEI sea-level rise tool

P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan headed to Paris Friday evening to take part in the United Nations climate change summit, or or COP21.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau extended the invitation to Canada's premiers during the election campaign.

MacLauchlan says he will be joining a session called regions adapt, which will focus on the topics of emissions and adaptations to climate change.

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There will be daily briefings from Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna, sessions with the French chamber of commerce, the Canadian embassy and non-governmental organizations, he says.

MacLauchlan says he will introduce the Coastal Impact Visualization Environment (CLIVE), developed by the University of Prince Edward Island's Climate Change Lab, a tool that models what will happen with sea-level rise.

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Other regions may be interested in that work, he says.

"We are particularly interested in adaptation given our vulnerability as an island state. We have had a sea level rise in Prince Edward Island of approximately 30 centimetres since 1900. So there will definitely be others there in Paris who are interested in this issue and we are looking to both contribute and to learn."

MacLauchlan says he also wants to highlight that 25 per cent of P.E.I.'s electricity is generated by renewable energy and talk about some of the work being done by Island companies in this area.