December 15, 2011
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Air & Climate Newsletter December 15, 2011 |
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Canada confirms it will ditch Kyoto Protocol
The Canadian government yesterday confirmed that it will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol, freeing it from legally binding emission reduction targets that it was expected to miss next year. As had been widely expected, Environment Minister Peter Kent told reporters in Toronto that the country would exercise its "legal right to withdraw from Kyoto". The move will anger developing countries and green NGOs who have long accused Canada of undermining the Kyoto Protocol, failing to honour its emission reduction commitments, and accelerating the exploitation of carbon intensive ... | ||
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Durban Summit – success or failure?
Was the Durban Summit a) the forum that delivered a plan to "save one planet for the future of our children and our grandchildren to come", as described by South African Foreign Minister and chairman of the summit, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, or b) an endurance test that resulted in what Friends of the Earth executive director Andy Atkins described as an "empty shell of a plan that leaves the planet hurtling towards catastrophic climate change"? Answers on the back of a postcard to the UN climate change secretariat in Bonn please. The | ||
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