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Alberta is committed to taking effective action on climate change while balancing economic risks and realities for Alberta consumers, business and industry. Alberta has committed to work with other governments in Canada to develop national policies that meet the objectives, principles and outcomes stated by all governments. Alberta is also committed to taking effective action in Alberta, recognizing that these investments will take some time to actually change the trajectory of emissions intensity.
The Kyoto Protocol sets out a specific target, without clearly identifying costs, either economically or in terms of other objectives of Canadian governments. In December 2001, the Alberta Government reviewed current analysis of the costs of implementing the Kyoto Protocol. From that review we learned that there is a wide range of estimated costs of implementing Kyoto.
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The Alberta government is committed to taking effective action on climate change. Albertans & Climate Change: Taking Action provides a comprehensive framework for an aggressive set of actions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and train Alberta’s economy to operate in a way that contributes to our environment and our future.
By 2020, Alberta will cut emissions in the province relative to GDP by 50 per cent below 1990 levels. This will be about a 60 million tonne reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below “business as usual” levels. To measure our progress towards this target, Alberta’s greenhouse gas emissions will be expected to be 20 million tonnes lower than “business as usual” by 2010. The following actions will be taken to achieve this target.
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In October 2002, the Government of Alberta released Albertans & Climate Change: Taking Action, Canada’s first government action plan to address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Government of Alberta is taking a lead on climate change and greenhouse gas reductions with initiatives such as:
• Canada’s first legislation to address greenhouse gas emissions
• North America’s largest green power contract
• $100 million in interest-free loans for municipal energy efficiencies
• $30 million towards technology/innovation and energy efficiency, and
• mandatory greenhouse gas emissions reporting by large emitters, coming in the near future.
This booklet summarizes some of the highlights of the progress that Alberta has made since the action plan was launched.
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Alberta is committed to doing its part to manage the risks of climate change by thinking globally and acting locally.
Alberta’s strategy is to work with other provinces, territories and the federal government to shape national climate change strategies that are environmentally effective and economically sustainable. It includes a commitment to work with the federal government to help shape international agreements, but at the same time ensure any such commitments or any national plans or programs reflect the commitments, actions and objectives of Albertans.
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Climate changeconcerns all Canadians. Alberta has accepted the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and is a Canadian leader in taking action.
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These are the preliminary key findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Government of Alberta between April 18th and 28th, 2002. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 1000 adult Albertans. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within ± 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult population of Alberta been surveyed. The margin of error will be larger for sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample's region, age and gender composition reflects that of the actual Alberta population according to the 1996 Census data.
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These are the preliminary key findings of an Ipsos-Reid poll conducted on behalf of the Government of Alberta between April 18th and 28th, 2002. The poll is based on a randomly selected sample of 1000 adult Albertans. With a sample of this size, the results are considered accurate to within ± 3.1 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, of what they would have been had the entire adult population of Alberta been surveyed. The margin of error will be larger for sub-groupings of the survey population. These data were statistically weighted to ensure the sample's region, age and gender composition reflects that of the actual Alberta population according to the 1996 Census data.
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This presentation oulines the climate change challenge of maintaining atmospheric concentrations below dangerous levels. A global response to climate change is needed – Kyoto does not include major global emitters.
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