OTTAWA (CP) — Canada would lose international credibility and the ability to influence future climate-change negotiations if it withdrew from the Kyoto Protocol, say briefing documents prepared for Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay.
"Given the Kyoto Protocol's international profile . . . withdrawal from the Protocol would have important foreign policy implications," says the document, marked "secret."
The briefing note says some Canadian businesses would oppose withdrawing from Kyoto because they want to participate in the international carbon-trading system being developed under the Kyoto framework.
— An Ottawa conference organized by the Engineering Institute of Canada called upon engineers and their professional bodies "to acknowledge the challenges posed by climate change and to adapt actions, precautionary or otherwise . . . to develop solutions to these challenges."
The resolution was opposed by three out of about 300 engineers in attendance, said John Plant, executive director of the institute.
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