Letter re Canada to fall far short of 2030 emissions targets

[John Hollins]

A letter published in the Globe and Mail this morning.

Miss the mark

Re “Canada to fall far short of 2030 emissions targets, think tank says in annual estimate”(Report on Business, Sept. 18)

Brian Mulroney was the first Group of Seven leader to sign the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992. That would be an appropriate year for Canada to use as its base year for carbon reduction, a total of 613 megatonnes. 

Instead, in 2015 the federal government set 2005 as its base year. By then, emissions had risen to 722 megatonnes. A handy choice for government to look good.

Indeed, Canada has failed with no prospect of hitting its target. I believe the policies and programs of the Trudeau government failed: Its preoccupation with the pricing of motor fuels, for example, simply did not work. Sales went up, not down, entirely the wrong direction.

In the inevitable tension between looking after the natural environment, on which living species depend, and economic and political drivers, the environment loses in the absence of clear-sighted political leadership. 

John Hollins Ottawa

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[Geoffrey Strong]

Government raised those co2 values by 25-30 ppm this past year, but left more recent values just ~ 10 ppm higher. 

Makes them look even better.  However, I have a query in to ECCC to explain why they changed the data.    No explantation on the ECCC web site. Still waiting on 2024 data, which should raise interesting discussion.  

Geoff Strong

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[David Dougherty]

Of course, the baseline is irrelevant.  We need to get to ZERO emissions.  However, by all appearances, we have no intention even of reducing emissions at all.

Dave Dougherty 

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[David Harries]

Super comment: both comments and tone.

 

Unfortunately, the likelihood of leadership, not to mention clear-headed leadership in these times is ......low to none.

DH

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