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2008
Wednesday 29 April 2009 Canada's harmful emissions soared in 2007
At 26 per cent above 1990 levels, emissions in violation of Kyoto Protocol pledge; rates far worse than in United States
Saturday 14 February 2009 'CO2 reduction treaties useless'
A new report says that treaties, such as the Kyoto Protocol, which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are useless.
Wednesday 03 December 2008 An international conference on climate change continued in Poznan on Tuesday. Some 10,700 delegates will meet until Dec. 12 in an effort to negotiate an international treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The UN is hoping the treaty will have been negotiated by the end of 2009. Representatives of developing countries have told rich nations that they will need billions of dollars of aid to help them react to climate warming and phenomenons caused by like droughts, floods and more powerful cyclones.
Tuesday 11 November 2008 KYOTO: CANADIANS HONOURED WITH PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE
A Montreal-based philosopher and a biologist at a Toronto hospital have both been honoured with the Kyoto Prize, Japan's version of the Nobel Prize. Charles Taylor and Anthony Pawson respectively received their prizes in a ceremony in Kyoto. The Inamori Foundation awards the prize for contributions to arts, philosophy, basic science and advanced technology. The three winners received prizes of $590,000 each and will take part in a symposium for Kyoto laureates next March in California.
Tuesday 21 October 2008 OTTAWA: KYOTO CHALLENGE FAILS
Federal Court of Canada has rejected an attempt by an environmental group to force the federal government to comply with the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. The court dismissed an effort by the Friends of the Earth lobby to comply with the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act, which the three opposition parties in the House of Commons voted earlier in the year. Lawyers for the lobby argued unsuccessfully that the Conservative government had missed three deadlines and other associated obligations under Kyoto. But the court ruled that it lacks the jurisdiction to evaluate the government's own climate change plan. The government maintains that Kyoto's requirements to reduce greenhouse gases by six per cent below 1990 levels by 2012 and that an attempt to do so would take 6.5 per cent out of the country's gross domestic product. The Conservatives have offered their own less ambitious plan.
Friday Jun 20, 2008 'Japanese Nobel'Professor, Bouchard-Taylor co-chairman Charles Taylor wins Kyoto Prize Charles Taylor, a 76-year-old McGill professor and one of the
co-chairmen of the Bouchard-Taylor Commission...
Thursday Jun 19, 2008 Ottawa accused of ignoring Kyoto pact
Ottawa has broken the law and defied the will of Parliament by failing to pursue measures that comply with the Kyoto Protocol, Federal Court heard yesterday. Lawyers representing Friends of the Earth Canada, an environmental group, argued the government has violated the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act , a law passed last year by opposition parties without the support of the Conservatives.
Thursday 05 June 2008 OTTAWA: COMMONS APPROVES CLIMATE LAW
The three opposition parties in the House of Commons gave final approval in third reading to a bill that would require the Conservative government to cut greenhouse gases considerably. Assuming that the bill is approved by the Senate and receives royal assent, the government would be obliged to act to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 80 per cent below 1990 levels by 2050. The target would be roughly in line with Canada's commitments under the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change, commitments which the Conservatives denounce as unattainable. The legislation is a private-member's bill introduced by NDP leader Jack Layton, who declined how to speculate how or if the opposition could force the Conservatives to adopt the bill's emissions target. The government itself has committed itself to reducing emissions by 20 per cent below 2006 levels by 2020.
Monday 21 April 2008 Grits probe Tory link to anti-Kyoto group
David McGuinty was baffled when he first heard provocative advertising about global warming in the midst of the 2006 federal election.
The radio spots criticized a consumer energy conservation program along with the climate change policies of the government of the day and appeared to come from nowhere, he said.
Saturday 23 February 2008 LONDON, OTTAWA: SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL CRITICIZES CANADA
One of the most respected scientific publications in the world has criticized Canada's Conservative Party government for supposedly showing contempt for science. An editorial in "Nature" affirms that although Canadian scientists are among the world's best, the same cannot be said for the federal government's attitude toward science and research. The editorial entitled "Science in Retreat" claims that science has struggled for a long time to be recognized in Canada, but that the struggle has become tougher with the election of the Conservatives in 2006. The text refers to the scepticism of the Conservatives concerning climate change and the decision to abandon the emissions reduction targets of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change. Industry Minister Jim Prentice responded in an open letter that Canada is determined to support world-class research and that the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper considers climate change one of the biggest threats which the world faces.
Aislin archive Friday Dec 7, 2007
Thursday 06 December 2007 Ottawa gains 'beyond Kyoto' allies
Canada, U.S. and Japan stress economics before environment at Bali conference on climate change
NUSA DUA, INDONESIA — They are fast gaining an image as the black-hatted villains of the Bali conference. Three countries – Canada, Japan and the United States – are sparking the greatest wrath of environmentalists in the early days of the conference on global warming.
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 Save the world: Dump Kyoto
A new book by Bjorn Lomborg counts the millions of lives that could be saved if Kyoto's trillions were spent on other projects
....In Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming, Lomborg acknowledges that global warming is a serious problem. He also acknowledges that people will die, and human society at-large will suffer, as a result. What he disputes is that we can do much about it without breaking the bank. Consider: The global all-in compliance costs of Kyoto amount to about $180-billion per year. Yet all these billions -- even paid in perpetuity -- would delay the globe's expected rate of heating over the next century by just 5%. Assuming Kyoto is allowed to expire in 2012, its total effect will have been to delay the pace of global warming by one week. In terms of Canada's contribution to Kyoto, the effect would be measured in hours. Think about that the next time Dion or David Suzuki lectures you about Canada's lost opportunity to save the world.
,,,,The bottom line Lomborg presents is that the world has about $15-trillion worth of damage coming to it if global warming proceeds unabated. Kyoto -- even if it were fully implemented by all its signatories -- would knock off a little less than $2-trillion of that, but at a cost of more than $5-trillion. For every dollar we spend on Kyoto, we get back 34¢.
...the "Copenhagen Consensus," an elite global think-tank that has created a sort of master list of problems facing humanity, ranked according to how cost-effectively we can fight them. At or near the top of his wish list are HIV/AIDS prevention, micro-nutrient provision, trade liberalization, malaria control, water purification and basic local health services. In all of these cases, lives of people in the developing world can be saved for thousands, or tens of thousands, of dollars each. Kyoto is at the bottom of the list: To save a single life through carbon-abatement costs millions.
Monday Dec 3, 2007
OTTAWA: CANADA HOPES FOR CONSENSUS AT INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE CONFERENCE
Delegates from 190 nations, including Canada, are gathered on the Indonesian island of Bali for a United Nations-sponsored conference on climate change. The two-week conference opens on Monday. On Sunday, the U.N.'s top climate change official told delegates that time was running short to avert more droughts, heatwaves and rising seas caused by global warming. The talks aim to launch negotiations that will result in a new global climate treaty in two years. Canada's environment minister, John Baird, says that the conference delegates must reach a consensus. He said that individual countries could not change climate patterns alone, adding that it was essantial for major polluters like China and the United States to agree to a climate change treaty that sets specific goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Monday Dec 3, 2007 Tories turn to ex-PQ premier for Bali talks
Move could be critical in Quebec, where Conservatives face heat for Kyoto criticismsAppointment of Pierre-Marc Johnson could be critical in Quebec, where Conservatives face heat for Kyoto criticisms
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