Strangely, Mr. Trudeau will not be present at the next international conference on climate change, COP27. However, the urgency is there. According to the IPCC, to hope to limit global warming to an average of 1.5°C, it would be necessary to reduce GHG emissions by 43% by 2030 compared to the level of 2019.
It is its Minister of the Environment, Mr. Steven Guilbeault, who will lead the Canadian delegation to COP27. But is this government really sensitive to climate change? Didn’t he grant Equinor Canada Ltd permission to explore for oil and gas in the Bay du Nord region? What is the funding granted by the federal government to oil companies?
In December, Canada will host COP15 on biodiversity in Montreal. In order to look good, Mr. Guilbeault warned us that “the party is finished “. He warns us that he can “stop” any development project that would endanger endangered species. Please note that he said “brake” and not stop.
Why not have a more global vision of the impacts of our actions on the maintenance of ecosystems and biodiversity? For example, global warming is partly responsible for the extinction of several species here and elsewhere, as well as the migration of harmful insects, such as ticks, which transmit Lyme disease.
Mr. Trudeau is not showing up at COP27, because perhaps his GHG reduction plan does not follow the required actions. “From 1990 to 2020, Canada’s GHG emissions increased by 13.1% (78 Mt CO eq.2),” according to the Government of Canada.
In short, shouldn’t we further limit our GHG emissions, which are responsible for global warming and partly for the loss of biodiversity? One stone, two shots