Canada focusing on existing climate plan, has no current plan to raise targets
OTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says Canada has no immediate plans to follow Europe’s lead and increase its target for cutting emissions.
McKenna is in Belgium this week for the second ministerial meeting of Canada, European Union and China on their climate change alliance to keep driving progress on the Paris agreement.
During the meeting, European Union energy commissioner Miguel Arias Canete called on the rest of the world to follow Europe’s lead and aim to cut emissions even more than already planned.
“Our collective Paris goal to pursue efforts to limit global average temperature rise to 2 C and to limit this rise to well below 1.5 C, requires each of us to look for deeper cuts than are reflected in our current Paris targets,” Canete said in his speech at the event.