Canada and climate change at the 2007 G-8 meeting

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May 8 to June 8, 2007 - Stephen Harper takes Canada's climate change plan to the G-8 meeting in Berlin, saying it can be an example to other nations of how a country can reduce greenhouse gasses outside the Kyoto framework.
Harper pressed for an inclusive approach that would allow nations currently without Kyoto targets, who together produce 70% of the world's greenhouse gasses, to participate in an international agreement in the post-Kyoto round of negotiations.

Liberal leader Stephan Dion, NDP leader Jack Layton, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, environmentalist David Suzuki continue their opposition to the government's plan, saying Canada must meet its Kyoto targets beginning 2008.

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[nat4053]

why is canada even in the G 8? spain is richer ..i think canada is like 11th ..we could be in the G 11 lol

[jonathantangjerd]

the people need to stop voting for mainstream parties. This is the only way power can be taken back. Vote anything but conservative, liberal, NDP, or Bloc.

[pspboy7]

God bless stephen harper, he has a long road still ahead of him all because of those lousy liberals who practically left Canada in a limbo state. Kyoto was an honorable effort, but impossible due to the world's past G8 government policies. Liberals promised to commit, then ignored their commitment and left the mess for the conservatives who were voted in because of Liberal inaction. Shame on the Liberal party as well as the NDP for their non-cooperation policy with government.

[silverbullet902]

If climate change was so important why did the Liberals not do anything about it, they had well over a decade to do it. Liberal party is such a joke.

[OasisDevonAndRyan]

Liberals killed it first! stop voting for t he damn liberals you commy people!

[greenpartyfan]

His plan is not good enough- emmissions intensity? its time he takes it seriously, the recent budget shows how lightly he takes the greatest threat we face as a nation

[PrimarySource888]

I agree the US should accept binding targets, but how is Harper dragging his feet?! He was right to hold out for an agreement where everyone gets binding targets, and he was right to sign a lesser agreement when it was clear that was the only agreement to be had.

'Kyoto Phase 2' will be the Bali agreement, and the latest deal is the groundwork for that. There aren't any Bali targets yet, but Kyoto does say everyone must have binding targets, which is also Canada's position, unlike the US.

[greenpartyfan]

exactly, by meeting phase 2 of the kyoto targets harper and bush are only dragging their feet- of course you need china and india on board but that does not give us or the US legitimacy to delay the issue even further- time is not something we have on this issue

[PrimarySource888]

Actually, none of that is true. Harper and Bush disagree. Harper says all countries should adopt binding targets, and Bush will only agree to non-binding targets. Its progress the US has agreed to reduce emissions at all.

And Kyoto DOES NOT have targets for China, India, and other countries responsible for 70% of global emissions. Kyoto simply will not solve the problem, even if we could go back in time to 1996 and do things differently. We can only move forward, and we should do it together.

[greenpartyfan]

thats what the original kyoto summit was designed to do. Kyoto targets would actually do what is needed to combat climate change. what harper and bush talk of is only a mediocre plan which allows china, USA, and other nations to do a half assed job at combatting climate change