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An Ironic Outcome

6 Jul 2018

The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reaffirmed Canada’s significant difference in emission performance commitment to future emission reduction at is the result of the very different trajectories of the twenty-first session of the Conference of the energy-related emissions in the two countries. [...] The most recent data targets with those of the United States (possibly in (2016) shows the country’s emissions running the hope of securing White House approval for the above 700 Mt per year (Environment and Climate much-delayed and ultimately rejected Keystone Change Canada 2018), almost 25 per cent higher XL pipeline), the Harper government announced than the Kyoto target the country was suppose [...] But the the provinces on closing the huge gap between revised projection includes the impacts of projected emission growth and the 2030 emission measures that have yet to be taken, most notably target, including the imposition of a national carbon the federal government’s carbon tax, whose tax to apply in provinces that failed to price carbon implementation has already been delayed and emissions t [...] Emissions from Missed Targets Canada’s oil sands grew by 267 percent, far and away the fastest-growing source of emissions from the country’s oil and gas sector (see Figure 3).  Over the past two decades, the energy sector, and in particular the oil sands, has been the principal Environment and Climate Change Canada expects source of rising emissions and missed emission emissions from the country’ [...] States out of the Paris Agreement, the United States remains much closer to hitting the 2020 emission By 2017, US coal consumption of an estimated target pledged by the Obama administration than 731 million short tons was 35 percent below Canada is of hitting the targets originally proposed the all-time peak of 1,218 million metric by the Harper government and later enthusiastically short tons in
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Waterloo, ON, CA

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