Canada faces U.N. grilling over Kyoto abandonment (Reuters)

[Eugene]

Canada faces U.N. grilling over Kyoto abandonment

By David Ljunggren
Reuters
Sunday, November 12, 2006; 12:44 PM

OTTAWA (Reuters) - This is likely to be another rough week for embattled
Canadian Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, who must explain to a summit
on global warming why Ottawa has effectively abandoned the Kyoto protocol
on climate change.

The minority Conservative government, which says Canada cannot meet emissions
cuts mandated by Kyoto, last month proposed clean air legislation that ignored
the protocol and promised to impose binding cuts only by 2020-2025.

Ambrose, the focus of attacks from the media, opposition parties and green
groups, flew to Nairobi on Sunday for U.N. climate change talks on finding a
successor to Kyoto, the first stage of which ends in 2012. Signatories to the
protocol are gathered in the Kenyan capital for a two-week conference.

Ambrose is the outgoing president of the talks but rather than attend the opening
last week she sent a video of remarks instead, to the irritation of some delegates.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/12/AR2006111200319.html

[applegrove]

1. The conservative in Ottawa are irritating people across the globe now.

Used to be just us in Canada. Do the people at the talks know she is not allowed to speak? None of the ministers are. It all must come through the Prime Minister's office.