How Can Canada Take Accountability for Its Role in the Climate Crisis?
“That means dramatically increasing the amount of climate finance that we send abroad.”
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans to cut the country s greenhouse gas emissions by up to 45% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels at the US Leaders Summit on Climate on Thursday.
Trudeau Was a Global Climate Hero. Now Canada Risks Falling Behind.
Canada is the only G7 nation whose greenhouse gas emissions have increased since the Paris agreement. The main reason: its oil sands.
An iceberg off Cape Dorset, an Inuit community in Nunavut, Canada. There is growing evidence that Nunavut’s glaciers are shrinking, in part due to iceberg calving as a result of climate change.Credit.Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times
April 21, 2021Updated 4:05 p.m. ET
OTTAWA Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada will arrive for President Biden’s climate summit on Thursday with an outsize reputation for being a warrior in the global fight against climate change.
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In a federal budget tabled today, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland outlined a variety of new programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the Canadian economy.(Dan Riedlhuber/Reuters)
As the world confronts a warming climate, the federal Liberals are committing billions more dollars to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the economy and help drive a green recovery from the pandemic-induced economic slowdown.
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled a budget today that sets aside $17 billion in new direct spending and tax relief measures that the government hopes will decarbonize heavy industry, build a cleaner economy and create jobs.
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OTTAWA - Conservatives have moved to quash a government bill that mandates Ottawa set legally binding targets to hit net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 over a lack of representation from the oil and gas sector on an outside advisory panel.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau adjusts his mask as Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson answers a reporter s question during an announcement on the government s updated climate change plan in the Dominion Arboretum in Ottawa on Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
It asks the House not to give the legislation a second reading, where it could be approved in principle and sent to a committee for further study.
The Conservatives motion says C-12 fails to implement a plan that addresses climate change while protecting Canadian jobs and economic growth.
It says the Liberal government failed to work with other parties as to who would be part of an outside group advising the environment minister on how to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson expressed disappointment with the move and questioned the Tories commitment to fighting climate change.