OTTAWA — The plan to enable Canada to reach its 2030 targets for greenhouse-gas emissions doesn't quite measure up, the federal environment commissioner says in a new audit.
Jerry DeMarco did a deep dive into the government's emissions reduction plan as part of a series of fall audits tabled Tuesday in the House of Commons.
"The need to reverse the trend on Canada's greenhouse gas emissions has grown only more pressing," said DeMarco."This is not my first time sounding the alarm, and I will continue to do so until Canada turns the tide." Those include a rosy view of how quickly some of the major policy pieces would be implemented, and fail to account for the impact of climate change in the meantime.
Overall emissions are about 14 per cent higher in 2021 than they were in 1990, but emissions from oil and gas production are up 89 per cent in that time frame. Emissions in Canada are down about eight per cent compared to 2005, while the reduction in the United Kingdom is about 40 per cent, 30 per cent in Italy, more than 20 per cent in both France and Germany, and about 15 per cent in both Japan and the United States.
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