Canada announced its withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol to the United States after the second

The Canadian environment minister, Peter Kent, 12 in the parliament held a press conference announcing," Kyoto Protocol" Canada officially quit.

He said:" the Kyoto ( Protocol ) to Canada has become the past, we exercise our rights to formally withdraw from the."

Kent also criticized the Liberal Party leadership of the Canadian government was approved to join the" Kyoto Protocol" is" responsible", because it did not seriously to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. He said, after exiting the protocol can make Canada from protocol provides about $14000000000 ($1 $ 1.026 CAD ) punishment, which in the current difficult economic situation under the conservative government, no other choice.

Kent in participating in the Durban climate Congress has declared," Kyoto Protocol" after the first commitment period due by the end of next year, Canada will no longer update on its promise. He advocated to conclude a including the global major emitters quantified emission reduction commitment agreement.

Canada decided to make its become in South Durban UN climate change conference after the closing of the first exit the" Kyoto Protocol" in the country after the United States, and second signed but later quit" Kyoto Protocol" in the country.

In Kent, after the announcement, some Canadian opposition lawmakers accused the Conservative Party of preventing global warming it to have a negative impact, but also severely hurt the international image of canada.

The Liberal Party of Canada government signed in 2002 to join the" Kyoto Protocol", but the Conservatives came to power in 2006 has been on the implementation of" Kyoto Protocol" the negative attitude, just promise to 2020 in 2005 on the basis of 17% cut, the conversion from substantially less than the" Kyoto Protocol" formulary target.

According to the" United Nations Framework Convention on climate change" the Secretariat enumerated data, Canada 2009 greenhouse gas emissions than in 1990 an increase of nearly 30%, grow 17% than 2005 or so, and in accordance with the" Kyoto Protocol" requirements, Canada to 2012 emissions should be lower than in 1990 6%.

According to multiple environmental organization published a survey, Canada is now the world's largest greenhouse gas emissions per capita, is an important cause of Western oil sands mining huge economic interests, but in the conversion to oil process on air pollution in large.

" Kyoto Protocol" is legally binding international agreement to cut emissions. It is nearly 40 developed countries and the European Union established mandatory greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, i.e. 2008 to 2012 the first commitment period developed overall greenhouse gas emissions in 1990 based on an average reduction of 5.2%.