Huh: Canada Receives Negative Award At COP30

I’m not sure how much this means when 40,000+ have taken long fossil fueled trips to Belem, Brazil, and have massive carbon footprints

Canada Receives Fossil Of The Day Award At COP30 Climate Summit

Canada received Tuesday’s Fossil of the Day award at the COP30 climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The award, bestowed by Climate Action Network International, recognizes the country deemed to have done the most each day to slow down global progress in response to climate change.

Adam Scott, executive director of Toronto-based Shift Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health, accepted the award on Canada’s behalf. Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac) confirmed in an email Tuesday evening that the Canadian negotiation team had no advance notice that the country was under consideration for a fossil award.

CAN International chose Canada “with a heavy heart,” the network said in a release, “because the new government of Prime Minister Mark Carney has flushed years of climate policies down the drain, and is completely ‘Missing In Action’ at a COP where multilateralism needs to be saved. In addition to the backsliding on policies tackling Canada’s climate-destroying pollution, his Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin has chosen inaction and silence where leadership was urgently needed.”

I guess Canada was sort of coming back to their sense on the scam. Finding Reality Land

With this year’s COP heading into its final days, Canada “remains silent in the conversation” while other countries work actively to establish the Belém Action Mechanism, aimed at ensuring a just transition towards a low-carbon economy for workers, communities, and Indigenous peoples, CAN International states. “We see the G77+China, the European Union, and others propose ways forward for the Just Transition Work Programme, yet Canada remains vague. The country offers only sympathetic nods to domestic ‘sustainable jobs’, but no substantive commitment to the mechanism that could link global cooperation, justice, and climate ambition.”

The whole paragraph rather reinforces the scam. “Just Transition Work Programme”? Sounds like a good way to redistribute Other People’s money and get a piece of the slush fund.

On the domestic front, the release adds, the Carney government has “systematically dismantled a decade of progress” in climate policy, announcing new fossil fuel infrastructure in the last week as part of a major projects agenda that disrespects Indigenous rights, democratic process, and environmental assessment rules. “Meanwhile, as climate impacts intensify across Canada, the National Adaptation Strategy sits untouched, gathering dust—a stagnation mirrored here in Belém, where Canada has brought no ambition to the Global Goal on Adaptation negotiations.”

The award citation concludes: “Canada: we expected better. Your people deserve better. And the world cannot afford your retreat.”

Yeah, sorry, the cult is slowly dying out.

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5 Responses to “Huh: Canada Receives Negative Award At COP30”

  1. Dana says:

    What? You mean it wasn’t given to the United States and President Trump? Clearly, we must work harder! We must start burning more coal, to catch up with China! We must drill, baby, drill!

    • Professor Hale says:

      I normally save my ceremonial tire burning for Earth day, but I can see this is a collective goal. Unlike the Climate activist lobby, I back my words with personal action.

  2. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    Canada has a slightly higher CO2 emissions per capita than does the U.S. Much higher than China.

    That said, Canada is not the worst.

    The highest CO2 per capita levels come from Middle Eastern countries!

    The OVERALL worst CO2 polluters are China, the U.S., India, the rest of Asia, Europe…

    Atmospheric CO2 is causing the Earth to warm, with no “non-magical” or “non-catastrophic” mechanisms to stop the warming. Maybe the gods will step in, maybe another massive asteroid will take out Kintucky, or maybe we see the massive Yellowstone caldera explode!!

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