OTTAWA—Canada is pulling out of the world’s only binding climate treaty.
Environment Minister Peter Kent says Canada is withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol.
Canada signed Kyoto in the late 1990s, but neither the current Conservative government nor their Liberal predecessors met targets.
Kent’s announcement comes a day after marathon climate talks wrapped up in the South African port city of Durban.
Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed on a deal that sets the world on a path to sign a new climate treaty by 2015 to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of next year.
The new deal would kick in after 2020, which environmentalists and some scientists say is too long to wait for binding action on climate change.
“It’s now clear that Kyoto is not the path forward,” Kent said outside the House of Commons.
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Source: Star
Environment Minister Peter Kent says Canada is withdrawing from the Kyoto Protocol.
Canada signed Kyoto in the late 1990s, but neither the current Conservative government nor their Liberal predecessors met targets.
Kent’s announcement comes a day after marathon climate talks wrapped up in the South African port city of Durban.
Negotiators from nearly 200 countries agreed on a deal that sets the world on a path to sign a new climate treaty by 2015 to replace the Kyoto Protocol, which expires at the end of next year.
The new deal would kick in after 2020, which environmentalists and some scientists say is too long to wait for binding action on climate change.
“It’s now clear that Kyoto is not the path forward,” Kent said outside the House of Commons.
Origin
Source: Star
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