Canada receives Fossil of the Day Award in Bonn (worst country in the world award) [did not include emissions generated by the tar sands in its National Inventory Report]

OH! Canada! NO

by Deborah Phelan, DailyKos, June 9, 2011

Today's CAN Fossil of the Day Award(s) (AKA worst country in the world) goes to ... CANADA because the country:

• did not include emissions generated by the tar sands in its National Inventory Report
• WILL NOT take a legally binding target under a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol.
• announced it cannot determine if it can make its Kyoto I target until end of the 2014 assessment period  (read Anna Collins A good day not to be Canadian… from Adopt A Negotiator.

Officials from Australia, China, Lebanon, the United Kingdom and the Philippines were highly critical of Canada's policies regarding the Alberta tarsands, their insufficient investments in clean energy, and the manner in which they applied scientific methods to determine their GHGs.

"I was also struck that the colleague from Canada didn't refer to the tarsands issue or at least only once in passing," said Peter Betts, the lead European Union negotiator and a director at the United Kingdom's Department of Energy and Climate Change, during the session. "This has been an issue featured much in the press, and I know there have been allegations from the press that the emissions from that sector have not been included in Canada's inventory (report submission to the UN)." (Source)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/09/983639/-Bonn-Day-4:-Fossil-Fool-CanadaWorst-Country-in-the-World