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Canada to withdraw from Kyoto Protocol

BBC News reports here: Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the country’s minister of the environment has said.

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Canada senate kills climate bill

BBC News reports here: Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government defeats a climate change bill calling for CO2 emission cuts.

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Canada to phase out older coal-fired power plants

Reuters reports here at CNET News.com: Canada will phase out older coal-fired power plants to cut the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, Environment Minister Jim Prentice said on Wednesday, as it moves to make natural-gas-fired plants the new clean-power standard.

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Canada firms vow to save forests

BBC News reports here: Environment groups and timber firms agree to protect two-thirds of Canada’s vast forests from unsustainable logging.

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