The latest national tally of greenhouse gas pollution shows emissions dropped to 9.3 per cent below 2005 levels in 2020, thanks in large part to the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic.
OTTAWA—The pandemic took a big chunk out of Canada’s national greenhouse gas output in 2020, but emissions from oil and gas extraction remained stubbornly high as the federal Liberal government signals it wants to finally see meaningful reductions from the country’s top source of pollution that causes climate change.
That’s the lowest tally of national emissions since the late 1990s. . It also seems to suggest significant progress toward the government’s 2030 goal to reduce greenhouse gas output to at least 40 per cent below 2005 levels, but the tally produced by Environment Canada credits the pandemic for driving much of the drop.
The report also charts a significant 24-per-cent drop in “fugitive” emissions from fossil fuel production, which is mostly attributed to reduced gas leaks from the fossil fuel sector and “coincides” with federal and provincial regulations to methane pollution. It is also linked to a five-per-cent and two-per-cent drop respectively in oil and gas production from 2019 to 2020.
In a statement accompanying the report, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault claimed “Canada is moving in the right direction” as it spends billions on climate action to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, but warned “overall emissions are likely to rebound to a degree as Canada’s economy roars back to life.”
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