Natural Resources Canada
NOTICE TO THE MEDIA
April 24, 1998
JOINT MEETING OF FEDERAL, PROVINCIAL AND TERRITORIAL
MINISTERS OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT
TORONTO – The federal, provincial and territorial ministers of
energy and environment met today to approve a process to examine the impact, the
cost and the benefits of implementing the Kyoto Protocol and the various options
for implementing the Protocol that are open to Canada. They agreed that climate
change is an important global problem and that Canada must do its part to
address it. They decided today to move forward on the following key issues:
- the process for developing a national implementation strategy on climate
change
- establishing credit for early action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- strengthening voluntary action
Canada, along with 160 other countries, agreed in Kyoto to a Protocol that
called for further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions over the next 15
years. Canada's reduction target is 6 percent below 1990 levels by the period
spanning 2008 to 2012.
Following the meetings in Kyoto, Canada's first ministers asked that their
ministers of energy and environment take the necessary steps to examine the
consequences of the Kyoto Protocol and provide for the full participation of the
provincial, territorial and federal governments.
For further information, please contact:
Mark Colpitts
Minister's
Office
Environment Canada
(819) 997-1441
John Embury
Minister's Office
Natural Resources Canada
(613) 996-2007
Jim
Kiss
Minister's Office
Alberta Energy
(403) 427-3740
Joseph
Handley
Deputy Minister
NWT Resources,
Wildlife and Economic
Development
(867) 920-8691
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