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USA is running forward to a shared climate goal. Canada meanwhile is still running in the wrong direction.
Because the USA has been acting over the last decade to slow and reverse their emissions growth, they only have an additional 15% cut in the next decade to reach the goal Obama set.
Canada however has not done enough yet. As a result Canada's emissions are still going up. Canada now needs to cut nearly a quarter of its 2008 emissions to reach the goal Harper set.
While the two nations have similar goals of 3% below 1990 levels by 2020, the Americans efforts of the last decade have left them a third closer to that shared finish line at this point.
Canada needs a nationwide, economy-broad carbon price to get the nation on track in time. The alternative of emissions growth-as-usual is a looming "carbon cliff" of surging carbon prices, penalties and tariffs.
Because the USA has been acting over the last decade to slow and reverse their emissions growth, they only have an additional 15% cut in the next decade to reach the goal Obama set.
Canada however has not done enough yet. As a result Canada's emissions are still going up. Canada now needs to cut nearly a quarter of its 2008 emissions to reach the goal Harper set.
While the two nations have similar goals of 3% below 1990 levels by 2020, the Americans efforts of the last decade have left them a third closer to that shared finish line at this point.
Canada needs a nationwide, economy-broad carbon price to get the nation on track in time. The alternative of emissions growth-as-usual is a looming "carbon cliff" of surging carbon prices, penalties and tariffs.
12th January 2010 · by Barry Saxifrage