Canada misses Kyoto target, aims lower
The Canadian Government has announced its strategy for greenhouse gas emissions, declaring that it will fail to meet the targets it agreed to in signing up to the Kyoto Treaty. Reaction from environmental groups has been negative, as this BBC report makes clear.
“The Canadian government has published its strategy on climate change, which acknowledges that the country will not meet its Kyoto Protocol commitment. Its new target is to cut emissions by 20% between now and 2020.
Environment groups have labelled the strategy a sham, and say that when combined with industrial policies, the country’s emissions could rise.
Canada is the first nation to publicly abandon its Kyoto target without leaving the protocol. The US and Australia are the only two countries with Kyoto targets to have left the 1997 treaty.”