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Canada Will Regulate Vehicle Fuel Economy
7 February 2007
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| Projected increase in greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. Click to enlarge. |
Declaring that “the era of voluntary compliance is over, ” Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that for the first time ever, Canada “will regulate the fuel efficiency of motor vehicles, beginning with the 2011 model year.”
Harper said that his government would also move to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from major industrial sectors. His speech came in the wake of the recent release of the first volume of the fourth assessment report of climate change by the IPCC (earlier post), and in the context of Canada’s rapidly worsening greenhouse gas emissions situation.
Our government supports a concerted global effort to deal with climate change—and such an effort must include the major emitters, including the United States and China.
But we cannot ask others to act unless we are prepared to start at home, with real action on greenhouse gases and air pollution. After more than a decade of inaction on air quality and greenhouse gasses, Canada has one of the worst records in the developed world.
The previous government committed to ambitious greenhouse gas targets, and then presided over a 27% increase.
...for the first time ever, we will set out enforceable regulatory targets for the short, medium and long term. The era of voluntary compliance is over.
By 2010 Canada’s emissions would be about 46% above the targets it had agreed to hit by 2012 under the Kyoto Protocol on climate change. That’s up from 35 percent above the target in 2004, the latest year for which data are available.
Canada currently does not regulate vehicle fuel economy, but it tracks US CAFE standards through voluntary action by automakers.
February 7, 2007 in Fuel Efficiency | Permalink | Comments (32) | TrackBack (0)
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Posted by: Neil | February 10, 2007 at 08:14 PM
Amidst all the self gloating by our EU and Canadian Kyoto signees. Just who has the best record regarding CO2 emissions in the advanced western world over the Kyoto period?
Sorry to notify you that the USA has the best record.
Now no one has much to gloat about but the increase in per centage terms in the US is the lowest and is the best of the Western countries.
The US at leaast addressed the issue realistically, with clean growth and improved technology, and not with socialist exortations which have as much effect as all the other similar exortations to grow everything from russian potatoes to Cuban sugar cane...
None, Zero, Nada, Nil....
Posted by: Stan Peterson | February 10, 2007 at 11:16 PM
Neil:
Yea, GW issue is so politicized and twisted, I do not believe to anyone’s summary or interpretation. I go to the sources (scientific articles) to get a picture, and mind you they are not sterile too.
Posted by: Andrey | February 10, 2007 at 11:37 PM
RANK___ NATION_________________ CO2_CAP
1______ U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS____ _____33.87
Lets bomb the US Virgin Islands. That'll solve a large portion of the CO2 problem.
Posted by: DS | February 11, 2007 at 06:12 PM
Andrey writes:
Carbon dioxide is not pollution, not even emission in common sense of the word. It is “CO2 emission”.Unequivocally false (and I speak as someone who once made that mistake). Phosphorus and nitrate are essential elements of a marine ecosystem, but too much of them are pollutants. CO2 is no different.
Rafael: The wind across southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba would allow some serious carbon offsets, but those areas have a relatively small fraction of Canada's population, let alone N. America's. To make a real difference they'd need to find a way to harvest that "crop" for export east, west and south.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | February 11, 2007 at 08:34 PM
^^^^^^^ Exports don't matter. I'm talking about the number of cars purchased domestically in Canada each year. It's a small percentage of every company, because it's a small number of people and there are no Canadian car companies pushing out massive amounts of cars.
The cars that Canada makes for export have nothing to do with this bill.
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I'm just giving you a hard time Andrey :) (although my opinion on the fraser institute remains the same)