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'A no-brainer solution': Canada bolsters fight against powerful pollutant methane to help country reach climate goals (www.ctvnews.ca)
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Canada is ramping up its climate battle by strengthening its regulations for methane, a greenhouse gas that environmental experts say has a more potent warming effect than carbon dioxide, as the country aims to reduce oil and gas methane emissions by at least 75 per cent by 2030.

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[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Our emissions have been flat since the 2000s even though our population has grown by 30% since then:

Therefore our per-capita emissions have dropped by nearly 30%:

In Ontario for example, we've paid dearly for this by closing coal fired plants and paying higher electricity bills so it's important to acknowledge.

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