Harper and his nonbinding emission target…

In Canada, we don’t have a real national target for GHG reduction.  Our current target by our Prime Minister Stephen Harper is:

• 20 per cent below 2006 levels by 2020; and 
• 60-70 per cent below 2006 levels by 2050. 

In other words, it means that according to the internationally used 1990 base year, the Harper target is less than 3 per cent below 1990 level for 2020, and about 51-63 per cent below 1990 levels for 2050.  To put this further into perspective, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) indicated that in order to have a reasonable chance of avoiding the catastrophic impact of climate change, industrial countries will have to reduce their emissions 25-40 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, and 80-95 per cent by 2050.

So, what do you think of Harper’s target?

This cartoon on Mapleleafweb by Dolighan says it all… “Harper and his non-binding emission target”…