On the latest G8 Climate Scorecard (PDF) released in advance of the L'Aquila, Italy G8 Summit, Canada has fallen into last place now that the Obama administration is reversing the global warming policies of his predecessor. The report chastises Canada as one of the few developed countries in the world with dramatically rising greenhouse gas emissions, and no real plan to control them. The scorecard also notes that Germany is the acknowledged G8 leader when it comes to climate change, and that UK, Germany and France have all been enacting successful policies to cut emissions, with all three nations expected to exceed their Kyoto obligations.
But the report argues that this still isn't good enough. By a long shot.
The scorecard was released by the WWF and financial services giant Allianz SE. It noted that Canada's emissions have risen by 26% over 1990 levels, and that telling statistic means that Canada's per capita emissions will soon surpass the US. And the sad truth is that per capita emissions in Canada and the US are double those in Europe.
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