Canada will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Canada has said it will not reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the Kyoto Protocol and will begin a formal process to withdraw the signature next month.

The decision comes as no surprise, with the United Nations climate summit now taking place in Durban, South Africa, expected to accuse poor countries of abandoning commitments made 14 years ago when the Kyoto Protocol was signed. According to them, the protocol is the only way to oblige countries to reduce greenhouse emissions. On the first day of the summit, there were also accusations against the UK for supporting the use of oily sands.

Around the World, the Kyoto Protocol expires this year. According to these agreements, in 2008-2012 greenhouse emissions were to be reduced by 6% compared to 1990. In fact, this has not happened, and the amount of greenhouse gases in the world has increased by one third.

At last year’s UN climate summit in Cancun, Mexico, member states failed to reach principled agreements on further countering global warming. All complex issues were postponed for this year, but the fundamental differences between the parties have not diminished since then. The adoption of the new protocol is opposed by large developing countries such as India, Brazil and Russia, as well as the United States, Canada and Japan. Proponents of early adoption of new protocols, the largest of which is the European Union, hope to speed up negotiations on a new protocol so that final agreements can be signed in 2015. Opponents, respectively, are trying to delay the process as much as possible in order to start negotiations in 2015.

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