OTTAWA — Canada is still not on track to meet its commitments under the Paris climate agreement, federal Environment Commissioner Jerry DeMarco said in a new report on Thursday.
Ottawa has promised to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to be 40 to 45 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, but so far they have only fallen seven per cent below 2005 levels.
The report looked at 20 of the 149 measures from the government's 2030 Emission Reductions Plan progress report, and found they were being implemented too slowly to fulfil their intended goal.The other two had significant barriers like delays in meeting milestones, including the initiative to get Indigenous communities off diesel fuel, and the oil and gas emissions cap. The government only published the cap's draft regulations on Monday, after promising the measure in the 2021 election.
That law requires the department to include in its progress report what additional measures could be taken if Canada is not on track to meet its 2030 targets. As such, DeMarco said he expected more measures to be included in last year's progress report since Canada clearly knew it wasn't doing enough to meet the target.
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