Our latest study shows a dramatic rise in Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel extraction. In 2015 (the most recent year there was data available) Canada’s extraction activities yielded almost 1.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide.
If all producer countries act like Canada and continue down this path, we’ll blow right by the targets set at the Paris Agreement on Climate Change – and heat our planet far more than the < 2ºC target. Find out more: policyalternatives.ca/extracted
Read the news release here.
