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.
Canada s 2005 levels were estimated to be 739 million tonnes (Mt) of greenhouse gases in its latest national inventory submission to the United Nations.
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Canada s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will appear at President Biden s climate summit on Thursday with a colossal reputation as a climate change champion.
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Increase in emission
According to government figures published last week, between Mr. Trudeau s election in 2015 and 2019, Canada s greenhouse gas emissions rose by 1%, amid reductions in other wealthy countries over the same time. Canada is the only member of the Group of Seven whose emissions have increased since the Paris Climate Agreement was signed six years ago.
Officials in Canada insist that Mr. Trudeau s reforms actually need some time to bear fruit. On the other hand, environmentalists argue that Canada can t cut emissions without cutting oil demand from the tar sands.
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Musicians in Canada join the fight for climate justice
New groups like Music Declares Emergency and Climate Live are inspiring urgent climate action and a more sustainable music scene By Richard Trapunski
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Moscow Apartment s Brighid Fry (left) and the Weather Station s Tamara Lindeman are two of the artists playing this week s Climate Live concert.
Brighid Fry has grown up in the climate movement.
A constant presence by the side of her mother Kim Fry, who worked for Greenpeace and other climate activist groups, she’s been going to climate protests since she was a baby.
“I remember being three or four and people would ask me ‘are you going to be a climate activist like your mom?’ And I’d be like, ‘no, I’m going to become a famous rock star. And then when I speak about climate stuff, people will listen,’” recalls the 18-year-old musician, who plays in the Toronto folk-rock duo Moscow Apartment with Pascale Padilla.
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