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Canada pulls out of Kyoto protocol

12/13/2011 admin Climate change

Canada has pulled out of the Kyoto protocol on climate change, one day after an update was agreed on, saying the accord won’t work.The Guardian reports. The Canadian environment minister, Peter Kent, said Canada was invoking its legal right to withdraw. Kyoto did not represent the way forward for Canada or the world, he said. Canada, Japan and Russia [...]

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Climate change : ‘Shame on Canada’ – Kyoto Protocol called a “Thing of the Past”

11/30/2011 admin Climate change

Environmental News Network Canada dismissed the Kyoto Protocol on climate change on Monday as a thing of the past, but declined to confirm a media report it will formally pull out of the international treaty before the end of this year. Although the Conservative government walked away from its Kyoto obligations years ago, a formal [...]

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Climate change : Will we ever get it? Rich nations ‘give up’ on new treaty until 2020

11/21/2011 admin Climate change

Ahead of critical talks and despite pledge for new treaty by 2012, biggest economies privately admit likelihood of long delay. The Guardian reports Governments of the world’s richest countries have given up on forging a new treaty on climate change to take effect this decade, with potentially disastrous consequences for the environment through global warming. Ahead of [...]

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