Federal-provincial climate plan summit won’t result in full ledger of GHG cuts
OTTAWA — The long-awaited pan-Canadian climate plan to be finalized this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the premiers won’t include a detailed account of how Canada will meet its international 2030 emissions target.
Federal sources tell The Canadian Press that while there will be a list of climate policies taken by various governments, don’t expect to see a balance sheet laying out the specific path to 524 million tonnes of greenhouse gases.
That number represents Canada’s 2030 “nationally determined contribution” — representing a 30 per cent emissions cut below 2005 levels — that the Liberal government pledged at last December’s UN-sponsored Paris climate conference.
There’s been a lot of water under the bridge since then.