Another day, another example of how Canada is dragging its feet on climate change. This time the evidence comes straight from the United Nations.
A new UN report released today says people in poor countries will suffer the consequences if wealthy countries fail to take strong action on climate change.
The 2007 Human Development Report says that global warming is largely caused by developed countries like Canada but it's having the greatest effect on people in poorer countries.
Canada was actually singled out by the UN as an "extreme" example of a country that is falling behind on its obligation under the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
The report comes at a time when Prime Minister Stephen Harper is already under fire for watering down a Commonwealth climate-change agreement.
The media is cranking these stories out faster than we can read them. What more is it going to take for the federal government to start taking climate change seriously?
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HotRob
You go girl, give em hell.
Are you sitting on the beach writing these Blogs?
I bet not but it's a nice thought.
Faye Day
Hello,
The only thing that is going to stop Mr. Harper is if we the Canadian people fire him. I can not guarentee that the Liberals are going to be get but until the Green Party can get up and running we do not have any other option. I think we should start a petition to have a Federal Election as soon as possible.
Best Regards,
Faye.Day
Peter Endisch Jr.
Thank you for the report. And thank you for working so hard to put climate change and other environmental issues on top of the priority list. I am a great admirer of your organization.
I am very pleased with the fact that there are rallies and protests in 32 (and counting) cities in Canada on December 8th and in more then 70 countries. As a co-organizer of the event on kyoto, entitled Canadians for Kyoto - we want to send a very strong message to the government that climate change is an issue that needs to be dealt with now. If you're interested, join us! www.canadiansforkyoto.org