Canada's GHG Emission Totals 46% Over Kyoto 2012 Targets - Reuters

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OTTAWA - Canada's greenhouse gas emissions will continue to soar in the next few years, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday. Harper projected in a policy speech that by 2010 Canada's emissions would be about 46 percent above the targets it had agreed to hit by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. That's up from 35 percent above the target in 2004, the latest year for which data are available.

"This is not just a matter of flipping a switch," said Harper, defending his open declaration that Canada will not be able to meet its Kyoto targets. "After a decade of inaction on air pollution and greenhouse gases, Canada has one of the worst records in the developed world."

He blames the previous Liberal government, which he defeated in January 2006, for signing on to Kyoto and presiding over most of the increases.

His projections also appeared to be a tacit admission that the green programs he had put in place so far would do little in the next few years to alter the upward path of the emissions, blamed for global warming.

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