OTTAWA — Several climate change experts said Friday they see reason for hope in Canada’s efforts to slow global warming even though the country’s greenhouse…
Caroline Brouillette, interim executive director at Climate Action Network Canada, said the 2021 numbers prove Canada’s emissions curve is starting to bend.
After being emitted, the greenhouse gases can stay in the atmosphere for centuries, trapping heat inside and warming the earth. That in turn leads to extreme weather such as droughts and intense storms. Canada’s new 2030 target is to push emissions from all sources down so they are 40 to 45 per cent lower than they were in 2005. In 2021, they were 8.5 per cent lower than in 2005.
Guilbeault published draft regulations in December that would require 20 per cent of new passenger vehicles sold in Canada to be powered by electricity by 2026, growing to 60 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2035. Those regulations still need to be finalized.Guilbeault will also outline the specifics for the oil and gas emissions cap later this year, and it’s a policy that will be met with stiff opposition from both the provincial government in Alberta and the oil and gas industry.
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