OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday he will guarantee that Canada is going to meet its latest climate target, because this time it's accompanied by a plan that shows how to get there.
Since 1988, Canada has set its sights on eight different greenhouse gas emissions targets. Six of them have come and gone, and Canada never came anywhere close to meeting them.
In a question-and-answer session at the Canadian Climate Institute's conference in Ottawa on Tuesday, Bloomberg News climate reporter Akshat Rathi asked if Trudeau would guarantee that Canada can do that."Every other plan was based on targets," Trudeau said. "Any politician can put forward a target. Can you actually put forward a plan to do it?"
For the first time, the plan outlines the emissions that have to be eliminated to hit the 2030 target sector-by-sector, and spells out some, though not all, of the ways that can be achieved. Transportation needs to cut emissions 11 per cent, largely by replacing combustion-engine vehicles with electric versions.
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