Mr. Prentice said the summit achieved a key Canadian goal of including all major emitters in an international agreement. He contrasted that with the predecessor Kyoto Protocol, which required no commitments from developing countries such as China, India and Brazil, and which the United States refused to ratify.
“I think this Copenhagen Accord will turn out to be the turning point in history,” Mr. Prentice said in an interview with The Globe and Mail. “For the first time, we have a firm commitment from all the major carbon emitters to put themselves into an international treaty.”
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/canada-defends-climate-deal-as-turning-point/article1407011/
Yes it is indeed a turning point. The point at which the Harper government can turn its back on Canada and the Canadian people and instead turn to the Oil Barons and Ed Stelmach, wink, and proclaim "Mission Accomplished."
ReplyDeleteCopenhagen is at least a start. Radical change never happens quickly, and is almost always extremely disruptive in many ways. Finally, only when there is a realistic price put on carbon at the source will consumption of carbon start to go down to be replaced by alternative sources of energy.
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