Login / RegisterCanada takes Fossil "award" on first day of Copenhagen climate conference
Canada has been awarded a Fossil of the Day “award” on the first day of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Canada garnered today’s award for its unwavering commitment to stand firm in its inaction throughout these negotiations,” a media release states.
The summit, COP15 for short, opened today (December 7) and is scheduled to run through to December 18.
For the duration of the conference, the Fossil of the Day will be presented to whichever country has done the most to delay and otherwise disrupt negotiations for an agreement on a global reduction in carbon emissions. The recipient is determined by a vote conducted by a network of over 400 international and non-governmental organizations.
That coalition’s media release goes on to state: “Since announcing its emissions target in 2007 of reducing GHG emissions by 20% below the 2006 emission level (equivalent to 3 % below the 1990 level), the Harper government has consistently refused to adopt any regulatory framework to start reducing emissions, namely form the rapidly growing sector of tar sands.”
In bestowing the recognition on Canada, the group noted that in a December 4 speech in Montreal, Minister of the Environment Jim Prentice announced that the Conservative government “won't be swayed by the Copenhagen hype”.
Canada is represented at COP15 by Prentice and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who only agreed to travel to Copenhagen after U.S. President Barack Obama and Hu Jintao, the president of China, announced that they would attend.
Canada’s receiving of the first Fossil of the Day was not unexpected. The country was the Fossil of the Year in both 2007 and 2008. And in the weeks preceding COP15, the European press speculated that Canada will do everything it can to sabotage the talks.
This story has been updated to reflect revised information provided by the Climate Action Network.
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Do you really have any idea what you are talking about or are you just repeating what the msm has told you? Do you really imagine Harper destroying the middle class, increasing poverty, destroying long fought for social programs,... is the best we can do.
Think harder!
VOTE NDP
“I’ll believe it’s a crisis when the people who tell me it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.” - Glenn Reynolds
In fact the US is just a huge inconvenience for those of us that want to holiday in Mexico. What a sick country you have ya'll!
What would Stephen Harper's mom use to slick his hair every morning then?
Seriously all you climate fear mongers get a life and your heads out of the tar sands.
If you want to live like a caveman then do so by all means, just "DO NOT" preach to us.
Take PETA and Greenpeace with you, live under her craziness Dizzy Lizzy.
@BCer and NDPer: In the order you made the errors.
1. "your" indicates possession, you meant "you're," a contraction of "you are."
2. The US is not the largest emitter of CO2 in the world, China recently passed them.
3. I think your vaction plans might be further inconvenienced if our number one customer, the US, stopped buying our exports, it works like this, lost jobs lead to higher taxes you don't get to go.
Also it might interest you that the US per capita CO2 emission for the past decade has been only a few percent more than our own. I'll wager in the future we will pass them while we continue to delude ourselves about our superiority.
Climate Warming is the new religion. What happened to separation of church and state. Go Canada.
I hope he is able (like Chretien did for Gulf War II) to keep Canada out of it.
Yes there are environmental issues facing the world, but a Global Tax won't solve anything.
If Canada is annoying these idiots we're doing something right.
The layman is beginning to use critical thinking to reveal the bull**** of the alarmist agenda, and hopefully this influences the political policies of nations worldwide to evolve beyond the rigid structures that currently exists. When today's Democrat is tomorrow's Republican; Liberal is tomorrow's Conservative or NDP advocate; it's clear that new parties need to emerge with a more multi-faceted approach.
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