Category Archives: Climate Change

I recently blogged about the fact that EU member states have not agreed to binding national or EU-wide greenhouse gas emission limits for 2020—in spite of frequent reports otherwise. The member state have agreed to implement a series of important product standards, compliance with which could (but might not) achieve the European Commission’s "goal" of cutting EU-wide Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) 20% below 1990 levels by 2020.
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Europe’s climate change commitments credits the EU with having adopted legally binding GHG emission limits for 2020 and beyond. This is not the case.

While EU member states have agreed to implement a series of 4 legally binding standards for Greenhouse gas (GHG) emission limits—two of which are intensity-based. But there are no legally binding national or EU-wide GHG limits in the Climate Change Action Plan that the members of the EU voted to endorse in April, 2009.
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Before I talk about the oil sands, I would like to describe how the UK and European "Cap and Trade" allocations have been subsidizing European oil-producer GHG increases by hitting residential electricity consumers with substantial rate increases
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If the Conservatives can get their Communications Machine working, the "Intensity" versus "Absolute" facility level cap on emissions would be a major loser for the Liberals as a campaign issue.
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If the premiers of Ontario and Quebec come out swinging against a federal plant to hit the oil sands facilities with "intensity" targets while they hit manufacturing industries with absolute targets they will look very, very foolish in the not-to-distant future.  It is time to distinguish between what you need to rebuild your economies as provinces and anti-Conservative politicking (says she, a Lbieral).
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