Report

'Canada’s Climate Change Calendar: Canada's contribution to climate change in global perspective' is intended to provide a fresh perspective on the question of who is responsible for climate change and thus who must take the lead in delivering the solution.

 

Canada’s Climate Change Calendar shows by when during 2010 the average Canadian citizen will have emitted as much as a citizen from another country will during the whole year.

As Canadians, we often think of ourselves as relatively small players on the world stage. Yet when it comes to producing the pollution that causes global warming and climate change, Canada is amongst the top ten contributors in the world for both total emissions of heat-trapping gases and emissions per person.

 

The flip-side of this uncomfortable fact is that we now have an opportunity to play an equally disproportionate role in solving it.