13.04.2015 - Canada: Environment minister asks provinces to set better emissions targets
Although Canada missed the March 31 deadline to announce reduction pledges, Stephen Harper says decision will be made soon. Having missed a March 31 deadline to submit greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets to the United Nations, the Harper government is prodding the provinces to come up with better numbers. In letters sent to her provincial and territorial counterparts on Friday, and released publicly on Sunday, Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq urged the provinces to send more information to bolster reduction targets that Ottawa has so far only estimated based on 2014 information...............................................Full Article: Source
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