PM won’t “blue-sky” on climate
The Globe and Mail
Monday November 30th, 2009
Summary: Prime Minister Harper has announced that Canada is not considering any changes to its current emissions reduction goals, despite calls for tougher standards by the UN secretary general, Ban Ki-Moon. There is pressure for Canada and other countries to commit to tough reductions at the upcoming Copenhagen conference on climate change.
Excerpt: ”We’ve been through the exercise in the past decade or so of setting targets that were idealistic or blue-sky and no one went out and actually achieved them, or set targets that look great on paper and didn’t actually require any effort,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper told a news conference Sunday at the end of his trip to Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, where he attended the Commonwealth heads of government meeting.”
