The Trudeau government hasn’t explained how raising immigration levels is going to impact 2030 target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
, concluded that, based on higher immigration levels, “greenhouse gas emissions will be 7.5% above what they would have been otherwise” in 2030 and “this gap will be much larger by 2050, the year the government has promised to reduce emissions to net-zero as required by the Paris accord.”Article contentCanadians for a Sustainable Society attributes 65% of Canada’s growth in emissions since 1990 to immigration, compared to 25% to the oil sands and 10% to per capita consumption.
“The expansion of domestic fossil fuel energy consumption is due to the high levels of immigration which has increased the Canadian population by over five million since the Kyoto base year of 1990,” it states on its website. “The oil sands … is a significantly smaller contributor to Canada’s overall carbon emissions growth.”
While the increase in emissions caused by immigration must be weighed against the decrease due to emigration and technological improvements to green energy over time, the fact Canada is among the world’s highest per capita emitters means immigrants from most countries will increase their carbon footprints when they come here.
With 2021 emissions of about 691 million tonnes, Canada is already far behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s 2030 target of reducing them to 444 million tonnes.Share this article in your social network
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