Next Monday, the day the opposition parties plan to bring down Prime Minister Paul Martin's government, a major United Nations conference on the Kyoto agreement and climate change is to begin in Montreal...
Next Monday, the day the opposition parties plan to bring down Prime Minister Paul Martin's government, a major United Nations conference on the Kyoto agreement and climate change is to begin in Montreal. As conference host, Ottawa will find itself in a most awkward spot. Participating countries that will be looking to Canada for leadership will be greeted instead by a caretaker government with no mandate to move the agenda forward on the planet's most pressing environmental problem. /P>In preparation for the conference, new reports on climate change have been issued in recent days at a furious pace. In one major report, the U.N. says progress thus far in cutting greenhouse gas emissions resulted more from happenstance than deliberate action. The report found that the 5.9 per cent reduction in such emissions in the developed nations from 1990 to 2003 came entirely from the economic collapse in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the early 1990s.
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