Brazil warns Canada not ‘to do less’ on climate change

Another emerging economy, Brazil, has joined China in questioning the sincerity of the Canadian government’s anti-Kyoto Protocol musings at international climate change negotiations underway in Durban, South Africa.

 

Environment Minister Peter Kent has said the agreement — the only one in the world that requires countries to reduce heat-trapping greenhouse gases that cause global warming — is in « the past » while suggesting a full withdrawal from Kyoto is « an option » in order to pursue a more effective treaty.

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