Canada To Quit Kyoto?

Monday, November 28, 2011 Canada To Quit Kyoto? Global climate talks got an inauspicious start in Durban, South Africa, on Monday with reports that Canada planned to withdraw fully from the Kyoto Protocol, a carbon-limiting multinational treaty first adopted in 1997 and scheduled to expire in 2012. Dramatic Carbon Emission Reduction Goals Targeted By Koch Brothers Achievable, Study Finds U.N. Warns 25 Percent Of Land Highly Degraded, Trend Must Reverse To Feed Population For U.S. Veterans, Green Energy Jobs Await Virginia Nuclear Plant Back At Full Power After August Earthquake French Council Lifts Ban On Modified Corn BLOG POSTS Keith Brooks: Why We Don't Need to Choose Between the Environment and the Economy We cannot choose between the environment and the economy. We need both. And this is our challenge: to create the conditions so that both can thrive. This realization is at the heart of an emerging school of environmentalism often encapsulated by the term, "green economy." Steven Cohen: Can Andrew Cuomo Meet the Leadership Challenge of Hydrofracking Policy? We do not yet have the technology we need to create a renewable energy economy. Someday we will. The question is how fast can we get there, and how much of the planet's ecosystem will remain intact when we do? Kelly Rigg: Can the Durban Climate Talks Prevent 'Betrayal of all Humanity'? The window of opportunity to deal with climate change in a sensible way is closing quickly. We have already reached 1°C of warming and the impacts are already being felt in the form of drought, heat waves and extreme precipitation. Cameron Fenton: In Durban, Canada Needs an Oil Change Canada has decided to put polluters ahead of people. It is only nation to weaken its international commitments after the Copenhagen conference; this after it stood alone as the only nation to renounce its commitments under the Kyoto Protocol. Heinrich van den Berg: Photo Tip: To Blur Or Not To Blur

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