Canada’s ‘fair share’: report calls for doubling emissions target as Trudeau preps for U.S. climate summit

The Trudeau government unveiled a new target to cut emission up to 45 per cent below 2005 levels, by 2030, in an effort to help prevent temperatures from rising above 1.5 degrees Celsius.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be joining 39 other leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping, who represent the world’s largest emitters at the U.S.-hosted summit, which starts Thursday.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

April 21, 2021

Canada can afford to be far more aggressive in slashing emissions by doubling its previous target of 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030, says a new report. In a

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