Canada to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16151310

Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the minister of the environment has said.
Peter Kent said the protocol "does not represent a way forward for Canada" and the country would face crippling fines for failing to meet its targets.
The move, which is legal and was expected, makes it the first nation to pull out of the global treaty.
The protocol, initially adopted in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming.
"Kyoto, for Canada, is in the past, and as such we are invoking our legal right to withdraw from Kyoto," Mr Kent said in Toronto.
He said he would be formally advising the United Nations of his country's intention to pull out.
'Impediment'
He said the cost of meeting Canada's obligations under Kyoto would cost $13.6bn (10.3bn euros; £8.7bn): "That's $1,600 from every Canadian family - that's the Kyoto cost to Canadians, that was the legacy of an incompetent Liberal government".
He said that despite this cost, greenhouse emissions would continue to rise as two of the world's largest polluters - the US and China - were not covered by the Kyoto agreement.
"We believe that a new agreement that will allow us to generate jobs and economic growth represents the way forward," he said.
Mr Kent's announcement came just hours after a last-minute deal on climate change was agreed in Durban.
"The Kyoto Protocol is a dated document, it is actually considered by many as an impediment to the move forward but there was good will demonstrated in Durban, the agreement that we ended up with provides the basis for an agreement by 2015."
He said that though the text of the Durban agreement "provides a loophole for China and India", it represents "the way forward".
Canada's previous Liberal government signed the accord but Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government never embraced it.
Canada declared four years ago that it did not intend to meet its existing Kyoto Protocol commitments and its annual emissions have risen by about once third since 1990.
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[MAGNES]

Good news, who is next ? Some leadership helps.

Australia, New Zealand, European countries, EUSSR, USA, etc .

This is a big nail in the coffin of the carbon credit enslavement game.

Or am I wrong ?

[Awoke]

I don't think you're wrong, but it'll just mean a change in tactics. They know Global warming is a sham, and they know that we know it!

USA was never signatory to the Kyoto protocol to begin with, I don't think. Kinda like how they bully everyone into signing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, but won't sign it themselves.

"Do as I say, not as I do"

[JDRock]

So...let me get this RIGHT....Japan, currently polluting the earch with IMMEASURABLE RADIATION, is hosting an environmental discussion while fukushima continues to spew its death-unabated??

[Cebu_4_2]

So...let me get this RIGHT....Japan, currently polluting the earch with IMMEASURABLE RADIATION, is hosting an environmental discussion while fukushima continues to spew its death-unabated??

Do you honestly think that Japan caused that?
Can't do anything with what you have no control.

[JDRock]

Do you honestly think that Japan caused that?
Can't do anything with what you have no control.

No, but japan IS-WAS and WILL be in control of the lies concerning the cover up by tepco as well as their REFUSAL to seriously
address the threat.....THERIN lies the irony.

[keehah]

He said the cost of meeting Canada's obligations under Kyoto would cost $13.6bn (10.3bn euros; £8.7bn): "That's $1,600 from every Canadian family - that's the Kyoto cost to Canadians

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/13/us-kyoto-withdrawal-idUSTRE7BB1X420111213

The right-of-center Conservative government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which has close ties to the energy sector, says Canada would be subject to penalties equivalent to C$14 billion ($13.6 billion) under the terms of the treaty for not cutting emissions by the required amount by 2012.

"To meet the targets under Kyoto for 2012 would be the equivalent of either removing every car truck, all-terrain vehicle, tractor, ambulance, police car and vehicle off every kind of Canadian road," said Kent.

[Awoke]

Siderail, but it's not only Japan that is hiding the seriousness of Fukushima, it is all of TPTB and their networks that are hiding it.

[Horn]

The onesided accountants are too busy collecting off of local protocols,

to hire another fleet of spending protocol accountants.