"Under the Paris Agreement [signed in 2016], Canada committed to reduce GHG emissions by 40% to 45% below 2005 levels by 2030…"
And, now, behold the chart:
The measurement of megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent decreased from 747 to 682 during the Coronavirus lockdown period, approximately, and then rebounded only part of the way to the 694-to-700 range. It is impossible to say that any ecological improvement was achieved from 2005 to 2019.
Now, I ask you: is it credible to imagine that these numbers will drastically change from 2026 to 2030?
759 x 0.6 = 455 megatonnes carbon dioxide equivalent, scil. a decrease of 40% since 2005.
Of course, even if this were suddenly achieved during calendar year 2029, the total amount of carbon in the atmosphere produced during all the years leading up to 2029 would remain a problem: we're not talking about diet and weight loss here, the pollution is cumulative.
The outcomes of COP30: have you ever heard anyone even bother to criticize them?
Not a single one of my viewers or listeners has asked me to comment on (or critique) the outcomes of this conference. Understandably: nobody cares.
Carbon credits are a profoundly flawed paradigm that was already tried and already failed: they were obviously flawed from the first stage of design, and only became more flawed in the process of execution, as even an imbecile like George Monbiot could figure out.
Here we are in the last few days of 2025, reading that our eminently qualified government experts still believe in "high-integrity carbon credits and increas[ing] private investment in greenhouse gas mitigation".