Climate Shame As Canada Named “Colossal Fossil” at Copenhagen

How embarrassing for us all internationally. Not just a Fossil of the Day award, but we beat out all the other shamed attendees to win the overall Colossal Fossil of the Year award (dead link). Will someone please call an election and his ridiculous, lame duck Bush-esque government out of office, please ? It’s making us look like schmucks internationally.

‘Fossil of the Year goes to CANADA, for bringing a totally unacceptable position into Copenhagen and refusing to strengthen it one bit. Canada’s 2020 target is among the worst in the industrialized world, and leaked cabinet documents revealed that the governments is contemplating a cap-and-trade plan so weak that it would put even that target out of reach.

Canada has made zero progress here on financing, offering nothing for the short term or the long term beyond vague platitudes. And in last night’s high-level segment, Canada’s environment minister gave a speech so lame that it didn’t include a single target, number or reference to the science.

Canada’s performance here in Copenhagen builds on two years of delay, obstruction and total inaction. This government thinks there’s a choice between environment and economy, and for them, tar sands beats climate every time. Canada’s emissions are headed nowhere but up. For all this and more, we name Canada the Colossal Fossil.’