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Newfoundland and Labrador's delegation at the COP26 climate summit in Scotland in November was the second-largest of any Canadian province. But after Premier Furey used the opportunity to pitch the province's "clean" oil, climate experts in N.L. wonder why he was there in the first place.

Canada’s new carbon pollution target is a range, rather than a specific number, in order to signal the “uncertainty” involved in setting future goals based on forecasts, the federal government said Thursday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced April 22 that Canada’s new greenhouse gas reduction target under the Paris Agreement would be “40 to 45 per cent” below 2005 levels by 2030. Canadas 2005 levels were estimated to be 739 million tonnes (Mt) of greenhouse gases in its latest...