Canada Already on Track to be Fossil of the Year in Cancun; Cleans up on Day One of the Talks

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Canada is off to an impressive start at theย United Nations Climate Change Conferenceย in Cancun, if what youโ€™re measuring is climate inaction andย environmentalย embarrassment.ย 

Today, at the first set of the Fossil of the Day awards,ย Canadaย took home not one, or two, but all three of the awards. ย The dubious โ€˜honourโ€™ is voted on by an international coalition ofย than 400 leading international environmental organizations, including Greenpeace, who vote on the countries that performed the worst during the past dayโ€™s negotiations. ย Turns out if you are really committed to climate inaction,ย fail to have any plan to meet already weak targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions,ย defeat a climate change billย that was already passed in your House of Commons by holding a snap vote by an unelected Senate after no debate, and are complicit in trying to weaken climate policy outside of your own national borders, you can win all three of the humiliatingย prizes.ย 

The gentleman accepting the shameful awards on behalf of Canada hopped from podium step to podium step, barely able to juggle his armful of awards. ย Looks like Canada can clean up humiliating awards, but canโ€™t clean up itsย act.

In the next two weeks, weโ€™ll see if Canada will take home theย Fossil of the Yearย for the forth year in a row. ย From the look of things now, we might as well preemptively cue the Jurassic Park themeย music.ย 

Watch this hilarious video to see Canadaโ€™s flagrant lack of commitment to climate change policy given its due recognition. ย We can only hope that history does not repeat itself once more. ย Prove us wrong, will you Mr.ย Baird?ย 

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