Canada pumps out more greenhouse gas in 1997

Reuters News Service
CANADA: December 15, 1999

OTTAWA - Canada pumped out 1.5 percent more greenhouse gas in 1997 than in 1996, despite a commitment to reduce its emissions, the government department Environment Canada said yesterday.
It said greenhouse gas emissions - caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels and blamed by some scientists for global warming - had risen in 1997 to 13 percent above 1990 levels.

The government pledged at the 1992 Earth Summit to reduce Canadian emissions to 1990 levels by 2000, and agreed in Kyoto in December 1997 to cut them to six percent below 1990 levels between 2008 and 2012.

A statement from Environment Canada noted that while emissions were still rising, the rate of increase had fallen. In 1996, emissions had risen by 2.8 percent from 1995.

It said factors affecting emissions included growth in Canadian transportation energy consumption and fossil fuel production.

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