Although the MoU means little in practice, it signals a new era of co-operation on clean energy and climate change among the trio of countries that make up the vast and energy-rich North American continent, all three of them important markets for wind and solar energy in their own right.

The agreement was signed at a meeting in Winnipeg of the top energy officials from the three countries: Jim Carr, Canada’s minister of natural resources; Ernest Moniz, US energy secretary; and Pedro Joaquin Coldwell, Mexico’s energy secretary.

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