Canada appears set to break a two-decades-long tradition of setting matching greenhouse gas reduction targets with the United States.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that new targets will be released next month, and will likely deviate from those recently set by the U.S.
“It’s unlikely our targets will be exactly the same as the United States, but they will be targets of similar levels of ambition to other major industrialized countries,” he said.
The U.S. and Canada had matching emissions targets under both the Kyoto accord of 1997 and the Copenhagen accord of 2009, which saw a variety of targets set by different countries.
Steve Lambert – Canadian Press – April 23, 2015.
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