{"id":6065,"date":"2011-12-13T12:13:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T10:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/12\/update-3-canada-first-nation-to-pull-out-of-kyoto-protocol\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T12:13:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T10:13:35","slug":"update-3-canada-first-nation-to-pull-out-of-kyoto-protocol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-canada-first-nation-to-pull-out-of-kyoto-protocol\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Canada first nation to pull out of Kyoto protocol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Canada will be first nation to pull out of Kyoto<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Canada government says targets were never attainable<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Critics say Ottawa has no credibility on world stage<\/p>\n<p> (Adds comments, reaction)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Ljunggren and Randall Palmer<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA, Dec 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Canada on Monday became the<br \/>\nfirst country to announce it would withdraw from the Kyoto<br \/>\nprotocol on climate change, dealing a symbolic blow to the<br \/>\nalready troubled global treaty.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Peter Kent broke the news on his return<br \/>\nfrom talks in Durban, where countries agreed to extend Kyoto for<br \/>\nfive years and hammer out a new deal forcing all big polluters<br \/>\nfor the first time to limit greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Canada, a major energy producer which critics complain is<br \/>\nbecoming a climate renegade, has long complained Kyoto is<br \/>\nunworkable precisely because it excludes so many significant<br \/>\nemitters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As we&#8217;ve said, Kyoto for Canada is in the past &#8230; We are<br \/>\ninvoking our legal right to formally withdraw from Kyoto,&#8221; Kent<br \/>\ntold reporters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The right-of-center Conservative government of Prime<br \/>\nMinister Stephen Harper, which has close ties to the energy<br \/>\nsector, says Canada would be subject to penalties equivalent to<br \/>\nC$14 billion ($13.6 billion) under the terms of the treaty for<br \/>\nnot cutting emissions by the required amount by 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Canada will be first nation to pull out of Kyoto * Canada government says targets were never attainable * Critics say Ottawa has no credibility on world stage (Adds comments, reaction) By David Ljunggren and Randall Palmer OTTAWA, Dec 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Canada on Monday became the first country to announce it would withdraw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-6065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}