The country released 670 megatons of carbon dioxide in 2021, a sign Canada's greenhouse gas emissions could be plateauing. But critics say Ottawa is failing to count big sources from logging.
Canada's greenhouse gas emissions rebounded following a COVID-19 dip but remained below pre-pandemic levels, according to a 2021 federal inventory.
Guilbeault attributed the lower-than-expected growth in emissions to a "decoupling" from economic growth. The emissions intensity of Canada's economy — which represents emissions per gross domestic product — has dropped 29 per cent since 2005. Emissions from homes dropped four per cent in the second year of the pandemic, while carbon emitted from agriculture dropped seven per cent, according to the inventory.The largest share of the 2021 increase in emissions came from the transport and the oil and gas sector as production increased following the COVID-19 shutdown. Together they accounted for a nine per cent increase in emissions.
A logging and fossil fuel blindspot Polanyi said Canada's 2021 emissions inventory is also notable for what was left out. Last fall, Nature Canada and the Natural Resources Defense Council released a report analyzing the net greenhouse gases from the country's logging industry. But Brouillette says the scale of the fossil fuels exported from Canada is so large that once burned, those fuels release more carbon into the atmosphere than all of the emissions released within Canada's borders.
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