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Canada's National Implementation Strategy on Climate Change (2000)
| Author | National Climate Change Process |
| Date | October 2000 |
| Classification | 3.02.0.00/20 (CANADA - GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
Canada's National Implementation Strategy on Climate Change Preface This National Implementation Strategy is part of a coordinated national response to climate change. Federal, provincial and territorial governments will implement this broad strategy through individual and joint actions, the first series of which are outlined in the First National Business Plan (2000/01-2002/03). These governments will communicate results in progress reports and detail new actions in annually updated three-year business plans. This approach was developed from the National Climate Change Process (National Process), which was established by the federal, provincial and territorial ministers responsible for energy and the environment in response to the 1997 direction by the First Ministers of the federal, provincial and territorial governments of Canada. International Context In 1992, Canada signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC or the Convention). The Convention set the objective of stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. The parties to the Convention judged that initial efforts were not sufficient and, in 1997, they negotiated the Kyoto Protocol (Protocol), which, if it comes into force, would set binding emissions targets for developed countries for the five-year period of 2008 to 2012. Canada's commitment would require reductions to 6 percent below the level recorded in 1990. These reduction obligations may be met, in part, by acquiring credits for reductions made in other countries under the Kyoto Mechanism provisions. Since 1997, negotiations have continued to further define the rules and guidelines under the Protocol, and to set the framework for decisions by Parties on ratification.
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