The sad thing is that Canada is actually in one of the best places to make it’s individual targets compared to most other countries. We’re a rich nation with plentiful resources and all our needs are met domestically. Our major sources of greenhouse emissions are well known and clearly defined. They are also things that all have existing solutions to.
Even if complete elimination isn’t possible, at least doing enough to reach our climate goals should’ve been easy. Heating and fossil fuel production account for more than 30% of our CO2 emissions, both things that could be replaced with electricity from clean sources like nuclear.
Is there any country who is really serious about lowering emmisions? If so, who is the leader? Costa Rica?
China’s a leader in terms of actually hitting their emissions targets (they’re hitting peak oil earlier than expected, for example), but they aren’t able to use the natural gas crutch to drive down “emissions.”
Methane leaks absolutely destroy any GHGe advantage natural gas has in the short term, but it’s something that’s completely forgotten in emissions reporting. If you adjust for natural gas’ methane footprint, the GHGe reductions in the West start looking really depressing.
China, the country that is increasing the number of coal power plants they build every year?
