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Annual WWF Scorecard Ranks Canada Second-Last Among G8 Countries in Race Against Dangerous Climate Change.
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Canadian Corporate News
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July 3, 2008
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jul 3, 2008 (Marketwire via COMTEX) -- Canada and the US are at the back of the G8 pack in the race against irreversible climate change, according to the 2008 G8 Climate Scorecards released today by the conservation organization WWF and Allianz SE. Each of the G8 countries were evaluated against twelve objective performance criteria, including greenhouse gas emission trends and progress made toward meeting Kyoto targets.
Canada scored seventh, just ahead of the United States, with very high emissions per capita compared to the average of industrialized countries. Alberta's highly energy-intensive tar sands extraction and processing also figured in the ...
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