Canada’s 2024 National Inventory Report shows Canada is successfully reducing emissions

By environment and Climate Change Canada
Cision Newswire
May 2, 2024
Category: Carbon, Climate & Bioenergy
Region: Canada

GATINEAU, QC – …The latest National Inventory Report confirms Canada has bent the curve and is reducing emissions toward achieving the country’s 2030 emissions reduction goal in a growing economy. …The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, released Canada’s 2024 National Inventory Report, which tracks and reports on the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. This year’s edition provides estimates from 1990 to 2022. The new National Inventory Report data for 2022 shows emissions were significantly lower, by 44 megatonnes, than Canada’s pre-pandemic 2019 levels. In fact, 2022 emissions of 708 megatonnes are the lowest they have been in 25 years, with the exception of the COVID–19 years, when emissions dropped sharply. …This year’s inventory also provides evidence that many parts of the economy are becoming more efficient and greener through the adoption of clean technologies; the switch to cleaner fuels and non-emitting electricity (hydro, wind, solar, nuclear); and structural economic changes as Canadians build a low-carbon economy.

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