Reducing Climate Change Canada - 1252 Words

There is something occurring in Canada. You may have lived here all your life and seen it or haven’t never even thought about it once. Over the period from 1948 to 2013 the annual temperature in Canada has warmed by 1.6[Symbol]C {Government of Canada, 2015}. Along with that, the arctic region of Canada has been warming four times faster than the rest of the planet since the 1970’s {Feket, J 2014 McDonald, B 2014}. The glaciers are also melting too. The Melville Icecap has lost 13% of its mass since the 1960’s {Feket, J 2015}. With these facts I have come to a thesis regarding this growing Canadian issue, the citizens of Canada, whether or not they are running the government or helping Canadian businesses grow, they need to do more about†¦show more content†¦Canada is also known for dropping out of the Kyoto Protocol, which included 139 parties. Canada then switched to the Copenhagen Agreement. This agreement wants Canada to cut 17% of its emissions {Me yer,2009}. 4% of emissions have been saved since signing back in 2009. This plan will not work because Canada only reduced 4% of its GHG’s in four years, there is no detailed plan to fix the average 1% decrease by 2020 or the future {Wingrove, J 2015}. Another strategy created by the government is the carbon pricing mechanism. Alberta teamed up with the Climate Control and Emissions Management Act (CCEMA) and placed a tax for carbon emissions on all Canadian Oil companies {CSA Group, 2015}. The tax is $15 per tonne and the CCEMA expects and wants a 12% decrease of oil sands GHG’s each year {CSA Group, 2015}. Canada is an oil producing company and a change like this would need time but we can switch over to less GHG emitting mechanisms {Mansbridge, P 2015}. The CCEMA plan will not be very effective because Canada has done so little to follow its rules and be effective in the past, and now we are even deeper I trouble. If the oil sands didn’t pay much attention to rules of GHG’s before, who says they are going to change now? Major oil company, Keystone XL, uses five flawed key ways to lower GHG emissions {TransCanada, 2015}. Keystone XL says they are lowering the