"D For Duh" File - Canada Will Not Make 2020 GHG Cut Targets; "Canada Has Made Itself Irrelevant"

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Canada has stalled in its efforts to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and meet international targets set by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. In a report released Monday, Environment Canada says that, without new action, the country will fall short by a wide margin on its pledge to reduce GHGs by 17 per cent from 2005 levels by 2020, and adds that there has been virtually no progress in the past year toward that goal.

The government forecast comes as Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq is scheduled Tuesday to address the United Nations climate summit in Lima, where countries are attempting to reach a consensus that would pave the way for a post-2020 agreement to be concluded in Paris next year. Unlike the United States, the European Union and China, Canada has offered no new target for emissions reductions.

“They are making no progress and they couldn’t care less,” Liberal environment critic MP John McKay said in an interview. He said Mr. Harper appears to be willing to rely on the provinces to lead the effort on climate change in Canada.

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But Green Party Leader Elizabeth May said the Conservative government is clearly uninterested in taking the kind of climate action that would achieve its international commitments, even as President Barack Obama’s administration in the United States makes real progress on its similar 2020 target. “No one here in Lima expects anything from [Ms.] Aglukkaq when she speaks to the plenary,” Ms. May said in an e-mail. “Canada has made itself irrelevant.”

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http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-wont-meet-2020-greenhouse-gas-emission-targets-report/article21998423/