Zitat(Reuters) - Canada will pull out of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, Environment Minister Peter Kent said on Monday, dealing a symbolic blow to the troubled global treaty.
Canada will become the first country to formally withdraw from Kyoto, which it says is badly flawed because it does not cover all major emitters of greenhouse gasses, notably the United States and China. ... ... Canada's former Liberal government signed on to Kyoto, which obliged the country to cut emissions to 6 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. By 2009 emissions were 17 percent above the 1990 levels. ... ...
Canada is formally withdrawing from the Kyoto accord, Environment Minister Peter Kent said Monday.
The decision to do so will save the government an estimated $14 billion in penalties, Kent said. The Conservative government says it has no choice given the economic situation.
Blaming an "incompetent Liberal government" who signed the accord and then took little action to make the necessary greenhouse gas emission cuts, Kent said he was formalizing what the Conservative government has been saying for weeks.
"Kyoto for Canada is in the past. As such, we are invoking our legal right to formally withdraw," Kent said.
Sometimes I hate our society. We indebt the next generations hundreds of billions of dollars to live a lifestyle of instant gratification, we destroy our environment without hesitation, blindly sticking our heads in the sand.
Our politicians are a reflection of us. As with every successful movement in history meaningful change won't come through legislation, it'll come through you and I educating ourselves and realizing there are more important things than buying the latest crap being marketed on TV.
.... Umweltminister Kent kündigte an, sein Land werde künftig einem eigenen Klimaplan folgen. Demnach soll die Emission von Treibhausgasen bis 2020 um 20 Prozent im Vergleich zum Jahr 2006 gesenkt werden. Kritikern zufolge wäre das eine Reduzierung von knapp drei Prozent im Vergleich zu 1990.
Laut Kyoto-Protokoll hätte Kanada seinen Ausstoß bis 2012 um sechs Prozent im Vergleich zu 1990 senken müssen. Im vergangenen Jahr lag der Wert jedoch um mehr als 35 Prozent über den Daten von 1990. Nun stellt sich die Frage, wer dafür verantwortlich ist - ein nicht funktionierendes Kyoto-Protokoll oder eine nicht funktionierende kanadische Umweltpolitik.
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