Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says Canada will consider speeding up emissions reduction goals
Canada will take a “hard long look” at a call from global climate scientists to hit its long-term greenhouse gas emissions targets 10 years earlier than planned, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Monday.His comments came after the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a new report Monday warning the world is teetering dangerously close to missing its critical targets to keep global warming in check.
The panel, made up of dozens of international climate scientists, said that means that by 2035, worldwide greenhouse-gas emissions need to be less than half of what they were in 2019, and that wealthy nations need to aim for net-zero emissions by 2040. “This is a new request from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – obviously, one that we will study very carefully in Canada,” he said.
Oil and gas production and transportation account for about one-quarter of Canada’s total emissions. Canada intends to cap those emissions this year and force them down at least 38 per cent by 2030. But it is getting pushback from Alberta and oil sands companies, which all say that target is not achievable.
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