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Canada's greenhouse gas emissions increase in 2019

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 12 Apr, 2021 04:56 PM
  • Canada's greenhouse gas emissions increase in 2019

A new report shows Canada's greenhouse gas emissions increased slightly in 2019, the same year Ottawa established a national price on carbon.

The national inventory report filed each April to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change says in 2019, the country's emissions were 730 million tonnes of carbon dioxide and its equivalents.

Once in the atmosphere carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases trap heat, which causes climate change.

The 2019 report shows Canada emitted about one million tonnes more of these gases than the previous year.

The latest findings show its emissions levels to be closer to where they were in 2005 compared to where the government has promised they will be by 2030.

By that year, Canada has a target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 511 million tonnes.

Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson believes the latest report shows the country is on track to achieving that target.

He says without climate-change policies introduced by the federal Liberal government in 2016, modelling shows 2019 emissions would have been 34 million tonnes higher.

"What it tells us is we actually are very much on track to exceeding this current target. Of course we need to do more going forward," said Wilkinson.

He said 2020 data should show the country's emissions starting to drop, acknowledging part of that will no doubt be due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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