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Carney government noncommittal about Canada meeting 2030 climate goals (www.thecanadianpressnews.ca)
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney would not say Monday whether Canada will meet its climate goals under the Paris agreement by 2030, as his government faces criticism over his emission-reduction plans.

Canada has a legal requirement to achieve net-zero by 2050 after legislating it in 2021. Part of its path to get there is a plan to cut emissions by 40 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030 — a commitment set out in the Paris agreement.

But while the government has yet to say whether it will miss its target — or whether it's still trying to achieve it — observers have raised doubts.

A report last year from the federal environment commissioner said Canada was not on track to meet its 2030 target. Jerry DeMarco estimated Canada's emissions had only dropped seven per cent below 2005 levels.

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[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

While I'm happy to acknowledge that these are, in fact, troubling times, the notion that we should not have and adhere to standards is nonsense and wholly divorced from other countries have or do not have similar ones.

If we don't

meet climate goals few countries will actually meet

Why should we meet human rights goals that other countries do not? Why drive on this side of the road if another country doesn't? Why have any arbitrary set of standards AT ALL if we can just toss them out because some other asshole demographic decides they want to shit on the world? It's such a bullshit argument: my moron boomer parents were saying the SAME DAMN THING about emissions standards when times weren't tough, so that holds absolutely zero credibility with me.

ZERO POINTS AWARDED. The same bullshit was being shoveled around during the fucking Obama years (and the Bush ones too, I have a long memory for this) and it's not like he was hostile to his trading partners.