Canada was among 19 countries promising to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from some international shipping routes at the COP26 climate talks in Scotland Wednesday.
OTTAWA - Canada was among 19 countries promising to eliminate greenhouse-gas emissions from some international shipping routes at theTransport Minister Omar Alghabra also signed Canada on to a zero-emission car accord, a memo stating that emissions need to be cut from international air travel, and a pledge to make heavy trucks and buses emission-free in less than two decades.
Critics say almost all of them have a common theme: they're mostly talk and not a lot of actual work.26 has been all about the headline announcements and not as much about the accountability and the tracking and measuring and verification of action on those announcements,” said Catherine Abreu, a member of Canada's net-zero advisory body and the executive director of Destination Zero.
Every 0.1 C increase in the average global temperature can bring with it new waves of trouble for the planet, with more heat waves, longer droughts, heavier rains, and more difficulty getting fresh water or growing food. After 2 C the effects of climate change start to become exponential and potentially irreversible.
But Abreu said a lot of what's happened in Glasgow is side pledges and alliances with limited accountability, while the draft text of the agreement expected to be signed by Friday shows little evidence governments are signing off on doing anything specific.
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