No GHG Targets In Harper Climate "Plan" Until 2025 - Bloomberg

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Aug. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's planned environmental strategy may push back targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions to 2025 or later, according to two lobbyists who met today with government officials.

While the policy may focus on a ``clean air act,'' government officials didn't mention the Kyoto treaty on global warming and its much earlier targets, Nature Canada President Julie Gelfand and Dale Marshall, a policy analyst at the David Suzuki Foundation, said today in telephone interviews. They did say that they were planning on having targets in those timeframes, 2025 and 2050, specifically with respect to greenhouse gases,'' Marshall said, criticizing the government's timeline as too slow.

The deadlines in the draft policy, which the government plans to unveil as early as next month, are beyond the initial target of 2012 for greenhouse-gas reduction as laid out in the Kyoto pact. Environment Minister Rona Ambrose has said the Kyoto targets, to which the previous Liberal Party government committed Canada before Harper's Conservative Party was elected in January, are unrealistic and that she must find new ways to cut pollution.

Officials from Ambrose's office and the environment ministry didn't give precise dates for the new measures, mostly discussing ``principles'' instead of details, Gelfand and Marshall said.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=aGc0MN2g9AjM&refer=canada

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1. These people evidently think earth will be the same planet in 2025.

Me? Not so much.

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2. Foolishly Short-Sighted

And the tragedy continues to unfold around us.