Intensity-based targets won't solve global warming

February 26, 2007 -

MEDIA ADVISORY

Briefing note and background on why intensity-based targets don't work

The David Suzuki Foundation has just released a new briefing note with important information about intensity-based targets for greenhouse gas emissions: they don't work. 

In fact, intensity-based calculations are a kind of creative accounting; they allow greenhouse gas emissions to increase - the opposite of the reductions urgently needed to tackle global warming.

Get the details on intensity-based targets, why they won't work, and the damage they can do to the environment and to Canada's international reputation from policy analyst Dale Marshall's briefing note on intensity-based targets.

For more information contact:

Justin Smallbridge
Communications specialist
David Suzuki Foundation
Tel. 604-732-4228 x.237
jsmallbridge@davidsuzuki.org 

Dale Marshall
Policy analyst
Climate change program
David Suzuki Foundation
Tel. 613-302-9913
dmarshall@davidsuzuki.org