On the very day that Carney repudiated SDG 13, the Kingston area, sweltering under extreme heat and humidity, was hit with two tornadoes.
Article content Even as extreme weather events and severe heat caused by global warming imperil Canadians, Prime Minister Mark Carney is jettisoning Canada’s climate change commitments in favour of a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast and expanded fossil fuel exports to Europe and Asia. In 2015, the community of nations, including Canada, adopted the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Under SDG 13, Member States have an obligation to “take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.”
Recommended Videos However, in a June 30 video address to Canadians, Carney basically repudiated SDG 13. “We must establish stability amidst this chaos,” Carney said of the shift from traditional fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. “The energy transition will be a great
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source of stability in the long run, but while it’s underway it can equally be a great source of disruption.” “No country is better positioned to thrive in both eras than Canada, and we need not allow the transition from one era to another to pull us apart,” Carney asserted. “We can’t afford to restrain the growth of an important part of our energy mix, oil and gas, to meet a short term goal.” “I want to be clear on this point,” Carney said, emphasizing the gravity of his next statement. “The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years than they were projected to be under the previous government’s plan,” he declared. Carney maintains that those commitments were “not sustainable over the long term.” And he attempted to convince Canadians that reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions “would have been too expensive for Canadians,”...
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- Jul 10, 2026
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- Jul 11, 2026
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