Posted on 10/24/2015 5:49:29 AM PDT by Dartman
Prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will face one of his first major international tests at next month’s United Nations’ meeting on climate change in Paris.
In all, 25,000 delegates -- including Canada’s premiers whom Trudeau plans to bring along -- from 196 countries will make yet another attempt to draft a binding global agreement to fight man-made global warming.
But the same fundamental disagreements which scuttled a similar deal in Copenhagen in 2009 and, prior to that, produced the failed 1997 Kyoto accord, still exist.
Developed nations, led by the U.S., want the developing world to agree to binding targets on reducing their industrial greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions linked to climate change, since they produce most emissions today.
But developing nations, led by China, argue demands placed upon them to reduce emissions should be less onerous than those put on the developed world, since industrialized nations like Canada have historically caused most of the emissions linked to man-made climate change.
Another stumbling block is getting developed nations to provide a fund of $100 billion annually by 2020 to help developing nations address and mitigate the impacts of climate change.
The UN says the purpose of its Paris treaty is to prevent a dangerous rise in global temperatures of more than two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels, before mankind started intensively burning fossil fuels for energy.
Canada’s target, submitted by the outgoing Stephen Harper government to the UN -- reducing emissions to 30% below 2005 levels by 2030 -- is unrealistic.
Trudeau refused to say what his target would be during the election, but even to meet Harper’s, Canada would have to shut down the equivalent of its oil and gas sector within 15 years.
That’s because the Conservatives did little to reduce emissions during their decade in office, just as the previous Liberal government did little for 13 years prior to that.
The problem for Canada, responsible for just 1.6% of global emissions, is that any global deal to reduce emissions is going to be especially financially punitive to a large, cold, industrialized, sparsely populated and resource-based country like our own.
The Trudeau government should be prepared to do Canada’s fair share, but not to give away our energy sovereignty to the UN.
1.6% ??!! We could reduce our emissions to ZERO and what effect would it have? What a joke.
Trudeau ping
I miss Harper already. God help us.
Israel is going to miss Harper, too. Even if only for moral support.
And he won’t be coming back. A new leader for the Conservatives will be forthcoming.
And yet we've had no "warming" for 18 years, even with nobody doing anything. HMMMMMMMMMMM
My first thought on seeing the headline was “It’s Canada! They should pray for global warming, they might actually be able to grow more food!”
The stupid, it hurts to watch.
In fact it is insane for Canada to be AGAINST "global warming". The government and all the citizens should be doing everything possible to warm up our environment, for obvious reasons.
Let those SUV's idle. Burn coal, wood, rags, leaves, whatever you have. Legalize freon. Leave your lights on. Dynamite those unsightly bird killing windmills.
Canada is a large country. In some parts you can fire up a wood stove for warmth every night of the year.
Canada Ping!
Thanks for the ping.
You mean we Cannadians have to shut up about how freekin’ cold it has been for the last 5 winters?
There is no global warming.
Well, we Conswervative Canadians intend to put a complete stop to Justin’s nocturnal emissions!
Canada is net producer of Oxygen and other countries should pay Canada, not the other way around. The natural way to handle Carbon dioxyde “poison” is to plant more trees.
Canada is in an awkward position - cannot say openly that carbon scheme is scam because HM The Queen is on the top of the food chain of Carbon emision scammers, so Canada has to shut up and pay up.
And having cleptocratic and idiotic upper crust does not help one bit. Canada supported embargo on Russia in hope to destroy Russian economy and as the result oil prices tanked and thus Canada’s production of oil from the oil sands became financially unviable.( if I remember correctly, $70 is break even point The losses in Alberta alone are over $200B and when the toxic spill eventually strikes due to neglect, the damage will be tenfold at least.
Canadian peso is now worth only $0.77 and will probably go even lower.
Canada is between the rock and hard place - Lieberals on one side, cleptocrats on another.
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