Canada To Announce Plan To Adopt US Climate "Policy" - AFP

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Ottawa will soon announce new "made in Canada" measures that closely resemble US efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and other air pollutants, Canada's environment minister said Tuesday. The news came after Environment Minister Rona Ambrose met with Paula Dobriansky, US Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs, and James Connaughton, Chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Ambrose, who will chair a UN Framework Convention on Climate Change next month in Bonn, Germany, told reporters she is working on a clean air act and other pollution controls to meet or beat US efforts in this area. The measures will focus on reducing air and water pollution, she said, offering few details.

"They (the United States) are beating us in every industry on pollution control, so we don't want to just catch up, we want to compete, we want to outperform," Ambrose said. US officials noted it was the first time Ottawa had invited Washington to discuss climate change, although Prime Minister Stephen Harper and US President George W. Bush had talked about global warming at a leaders summit in Mexico last month.

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In 2003, Canada had increased its emissions by 24.2 percent from the base 1990 level, far from its 2012 target of a six percent reduction, according to the report published in November 2005. Prime Minister Stephen Harper sparked concerns earlier this month when he said it would be "impossible" for Canada to meet its Kyoto targets. Meanwhile his government cut some 15 existing climate change programs.

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http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Canada_To_Adopt_US_Climate_Change_Policies.html

[tuvor]

1. Um, how will we Canadians "outperform" the USA

if we adopt measures that "closely resemble" what the USA is doing?

[eppur_se_muova]

2. This must be one of those "faith-based" policies ...

by process of elimination, since it sure isn't "reality-based".

[rfkrfk]

3. the more progressive provinces, should lead

you have to start somewhere

[OneBlueSky]

4. abandoning Kyoto, are they? . . . n/t

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