Canada will pull out of Kyoto

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OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – Environment Minister Peter Kent says Canada will withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol by the end of next year.  He made the announcement during a teleconference from an international climate-change summit in South Africa.

Kent said today Canada will not make a second commitment to Kyoto, which would run from 2013 to 2017.

Jean Chretien’s Liberal government signed onto Kyoto in 1998, but took little action to meet Canada’s targets to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.  The Conservatives also ignored Kyoto after they came to power in 2006.

The Kyoto accord requires countries to make strict cuts to their greenhouse-gas emissions, but the Tories say making those reductions would hurt the nation’s economy.

The world’s biggest polluters, the US, China and India, are not part of Kyoto and the Conservatives argue that any agreement that does not include the big emitters is meaningless.

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