Canada Pulls Out of Kyoto Climate Pact

OTTAWA– Moncler Outlet The Canadian government said Monday it was formally withdrawing from the Kyoto protocol on climate change-the first country to do so-though it said it would honor a separate, carbon-reducing agreement reached over the weekend in Durban, South Africa.

Mr. Kent said the pact was futile in combating climate change because it didn’t incorporate the world’s three major emitters. He also said Canada would have faced 14 billion Canadian dollars ($13.6 billion) in fines under the treaty- Moncler sale .

Canada’s New Democratic Party, the major political opposition, denounced the move. “This government is abdicating its international responsibilities,” said Meagan Leslie, the New Democrats’ environment point person.

“What pulling out of Kyoto will do is further destabilize international action to combat the growing climate crisis,” said Mike Hudema, a Greenpeace Canada spokesman. “It really is a further signal that the Harper government is more concerned with protecting polluters than with protecting people

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