Canada Announces Greenhouse Gas Targets

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/w-na/2007/apr/25/042505259.html

TORONTO (AP) - Canada's Conservative government said Wednesday it will cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent by 2020 and ban inefficient incandescent lightbulbs by 2012 as part of a national environmental initiative.

The plan, dubbed "Turning the Corner," includes various measures to stop the rise of greenhouse gases in three to five years. Once the gases stop rising, the government plans to reduce them by 150 million tons by 2020, or about 20 percent the level of current emissions.

The new goal puts Canada 11 percent above its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change - which requires 35 industrialized countries to curb emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases that act like a greenhouse trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Under the accord, the former Liberal government is committed to a 6 percent cut in greenhouse emissions from 1990 levels by 2012. But the country's emissions are 30 percent above 1990 levels.

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[razzleberry]

1. the insincere promises just keep on coming

the Kyoto Treaty, --> ratified <-- by Canada,

requires Canada to reduce GHG by 6% during
the five year period 2008 to 2012.

it is now April 2007

[lostinacause]

2. No Kyoto requiers Canada to reduce levels below 1990 levels by 6% during that period.

This is around 25% below current levels.