Canada hasn't mended polluting ways: report

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With only a decade left to cut greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Kyoto Accord, new data show that Canadians are moving in the opposite direction and releasing far more of the gases than they did in 1980.

The data, released by Statistics Canada Tuesday, show that throughout the 20 years before the year 2000 the amount of carbon dioxide emissions (commonly called greenhouse gases) released per Canadian rose an average of 0.25 per cent each year.

By 2000, the nation's total production of carbon dioxide was up to 564 megatonnes, an average of 18.3 megatonnes per person. By comparison, the average member-nation of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development had per capita emission levels barely two-thirds that of Canada's.

http://theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030916.wgass0916/BNStory/National/

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1. Hence

the signing of Kyoto, and the move to fix things.