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Stop climate change

Greenpeace is asking you to take part in an energy revolution - to go from a world powered by nuclear and fossil fuels to one running on renewable energy.

Climate change is a reality, and it has been caused by human activity. Fortunately, there are proven energy solutions we can put to use today to provide sustainable development and energy for all. Will this energy transformation occur rapidly enough to avert the worst effects of a warming world? You will help decide the answer to that question.

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Energy [R]evolution: A sustainable Canada energy outlook

11 May 2009

Energy [R]evolution is a groundbreaking report that shows how Canada can cut global warming pollution to the levels needed to prevent the worst effects of global warming while also meeting the energy needs of a growing world and phasing out nuclear power.

There is overwhelming consensus that global warming is an unequivocal, scientifically proven reality that is caused largely by burning fossil fuels. Climate scientists have said global greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2015 and then decrease rapidly after that.

The report outlines how Canada can use available technology to cut the greenhouse gas emissions from its energy sector 34 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020 and 80 per cent by 2050.

Greenpeace and the European Renewable Energy Council commissioned the report from the German Aerospace Center.

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CLIMATE AND ENERGY ISSUES
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Canada and Kyoto

Successive Canadian governments have failed to reduce Canada's greenhouse gas emissions.

Canada agreed to make significant reductions by 2012 when it signed the Kyoto Protocol.

Canada will not meet these international commitments.

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Braving toxic fumes and the same toxic tailings waste that earlier this year killed 500 ducks, Greenpeace activists entered Syncrude's Aurora North tar sands operation early this morning and attempted to block a pipe into the two-kilometre wide tailings pond. The activists also suspended a banner that read "World's Dirtiest Oil: Stop the Tar Sands." Enlarge Image

Canada's Tar Sands and environmental destruction

The tar sands in the province of Alberta, Canada are a vast area of thick bitumen petroleum mixed with sand, clay and water. At present, the tar sands produce about one million barrels of synthetic crude oil a day. The tar sands produce the dirtiest oil in the world. The problems from production include: destruction of forested lands, contamination of huge quantities of water, enormous energy requirements to release oil, greenhouse gas emissions, and impacts on First Nations and other people.

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RELATED ISSUES
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Shut Down Pickering

The reactors at Pickering are the oldest and most dangerous in Canada.

These reactors threaten the millions of people who live within 30 km of the site. Reactors should not be this close to a major population centre.

The Pickering reactors should be shut down and replaced with green energy.
It can be done.

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Turning Up the Heat

Logging in Canada’s Boreal Forest is exacerbating global warming by releasing greenhouse gases and reducing carbon storage, says a new Greenpeace report released today. It also makes the forest more susceptible to global warming impacts like wildfires and insect outbreaks, which in turn release more greenhouse gases.

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Quickfacts - Key climate and energy issues for the US and Canada

There are a number of issues relevant to the US and Canada, including: Tar Sands and Low Carbon Fuel Standards in the U.S.; A North American Cap and Trade System; Targets for Greenhouse Gas Reduction; and Green Energy Stimulus: Harper vs. Obama.

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Stop the Tar Sands Donate for action on global warming in 2009