‘No way’ Canada can meet its 2030 climate target, researchers say - Toronto Star

Under Mark Carney's policies, goal for 2030 won't even be met 20 years later, finds the Canadian Climate Institute. 

Mark Carney, then Bank of England governor, makes a keynote address at the 2020 United Nations Climate Change Conference in London.

OTTAWA — Canada’s progress against greenhouse gas emissions is stalling, according to a new analysis that concludes the country’s climate target for 2030 is so far out of reach that it likely won’t even be met by 2050 — the year Prime Minister Mark Carney promises to hit “net zero” emissions. 

Researchers at the Canadian Climate Institute were set to release their analysis Friday morning, concluding the country is “far off track for its near-term climate goals,” and that there is a “cavernous gap” between projected future emissions and the ambition to hit net-zero by 2050. 

The researchers blamed “weaker” climate policies that will fail to offset the increased emissions from new development, following a series of decisions by Carney’s Liberal government to cancel and water down national measures designed to cut greenhouse gas output that drives climate change. 

“There’s no physical way at this point that Canada can meet its 2030 goal,” said Rick Smith, president of the Canadian Climate Institute. 

“Now,” he added, “unless we get a move on, 2050 is not in the cards.” 

A document obtained by the Star offers a window into the aims of the much-hyped summit taking place in Toronto next week.