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…
While those activities were not back to normal levels in 2021, there were fewer lockdowns, so it was expected that emissions would be higher. But Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said they didn’t rebound as much as expected.
The report suggests that more fuel-efficient cars and a growing number of electric vehicles are starting to have an impact on emissions from road transportation, that Canada’s effort to wean itself off coal as a source of electricity has had a significant impact on emissions from power plants, and that national regulations requiring oil and gas companies to stop methane from leaking out of oil and gas wells are succeeding.
Greenhouse gas emissions such as carbon dioxide and methane are produced from activities we rely on, including driving cars, making steel and aluminum, mining metals, heating homes and buildings, and producing the fossil fuels to do all of those things. Heavy industry contributes 11 per cent of the total, agriculture accounts for 10 per cent, electricity generation for eight per cent and waste for seven per cent.
Canadian Climate Institute principal economist Dave Sawyer said that means the promised policies to cap oil and gas emissions and mandate the sale of more electric vehicles must be implemented.
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