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GLOBAL RENEWABLES ONLINE - JANUARY 2012
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N DECEMBER 12 ,
2011,
Canada’s Minister of the
Environment Peter Kent declared
that the Kyoto Protocol – a legally
binding protocol with the goal of
containing emissions of the main
anthropogenic greenhouse gases in
ways that reflect underlying national
differences in GHG emissions,
wealth and capacity to make
reductions – does not represent the
path forward for Canada and the
government is invoking its legal right
to formally withdraw.
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INACTION
UNDERSCORES THE
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CLIMATE CHANGE