Oil and gas production hikes and rebounding air travel put a drag on Canada's climate progress last year, but a new report says the country was still able to make a modest cut to its planet-warming emissions.
Oil and gas production hikes and rebounding air travel put a drag on Canada's climate progress last year, but a new report says the country was still able to make a modest cut to its planet-warming emissions.
But the Canadian Climate Institute says the country will need to speed up that progress if it hopes to hit its 2030 target to cut emissions by 40 to 45 per cent compared to 2005 levels. The oil and gas sector continued to hold back Canada's progress, increasing its emissions by about one per cent compared to 2022, and now accounts for just under a third of the country's total emissions.
“Once again, progress in Canada’s emissions reductions is starkly different across sectors," said Canadian Climate Institute president Rick Smith.
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