GOLDSTEIN: Canada a global leader in defusing the real carbon bomb — coal

While you seldom hear about it, Canada is a global leader in reducing the use of coal to generate electricity.

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Canada’s emissions from all industrial energy sources, 1.5% of the global total, are too little to materially impact climate change, as Canada’s parliamentary budget officer Yves Giroux has reported. The single largest source of rising emissions globally is the world’s thousands of coal-fired electricity plants, with countries like China, the world’s largest emitter, issuing permits to build the equivalent of two, large, coal-fired power plants per week.

The reason is that we generate only 5.7% of our electricity from coal-fired power plants and we’re phasing them out.

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