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House Hansard - 55

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 7, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 55 - Apr/7/22
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Apr/7/22 2:36:15 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, what the IPCC said in its report this week is that in order to prevent global temperatures from rising beyond 1.5°C, countries have to reduce, between now and 2030, their greenhouse gas emissions by 43%. We are on track to reducing them by 40% to 45%. The IPCC said that every sector of our economy needs to be reducing its emissions. I tabled last week in the House a report that shows how exactly we are going to do that between now and 2030. The IPCC also recognized that we will still be using fossil fuels even in 2050, and we need to make sure that these are as low-emitting as possible and we need to capture all of the emissions.
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Context: House Hansard - 55 - Apr/7/22
Hon. Steven Guilbeault (Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Lib.)
  • Apr/7/22 3:16:11 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the IPCC did not say what he just said. The secretary general of the United Nations said that. There is a big difference. The IPCC said every country needs to reduce its emissions by 43% by 2030. That is exactly what we are doing. The IPCC said any fossil fuel that we will still be using needs to be abated. That is exactly what we are doing by putting in place mandatory measures for net zero by 2050. We will continue to do that.
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