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Dec. 11 (Bloomberg) — Canadas opposition parties would implement tough carbon-dioxide emissions targets if they vote to topple Prime Minister Stephen Harpers minority Conservative government next year, the countrys Green Party leader said.
A coalition government would aim to reduce output of the greenhouse gas by 30 percent by 2020 from 1990 levels and 80 percent by 2050, Elizabeth May said in an interview in Poland where United Nations climate negotiations are taking place.
Canada, whose CO2 emissions have risen almost a third since 1990, promised to lower output 20 percent by 2020 from 2006 levels, according to its chief climate-change negotiator. Canada is among the worst transgressors of the Kyoto treaty, which obliges richer countries to reduce CO2, blamed for contributing to global warming.
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