Canada Goes Backwards

Canada Lowers Carbon Emission Reduction Aims
Published on June 08, 2010 Comments (Be the first)

by Matthew Sullivan

(OfficialWire)

LONDON,ENGLAND



Environmental groups are angry that the Canadian government has announced plans to reduce its carbon emissions targets. This year the minority Conservative government in the country announced it would only reduce its carbon emissions by five million tonnes, slashing its previous target for 2010 by 90 per cent.

In a new report, entitled A Climate Change Plan for the Purposes of the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, the government also lowered its CO2 emissions reduction targets for 2011 and 2012, down to eight and ten million tonnes each year respectively.

Over the past 15 years, Canada`s carbon emissions have risen by 32 per cent, according to Conference Board Canada. Last year, in the country`s annual greenhouse gas emissions report, the government predicted that it would cut carbon emissions by 52 million tonnes this year alone. Then, in 2011 and 2012 it would deliver CO2 emission savings of between 64 and 74 million tonnes.

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