UN Agency Commends Canada for Kyoto
NAIROBI, KENYA -- - Several funds and mechanisms to launch renewable energy projects can become legally operational only when Kyoto comes into force, says Klaus Toepfer of the U.N. Environment Programme.
The fact that Canada believes it can achieve its reduction targets, despite being a big user and producer of fossil fuels, gives the clear signal to others that fighting global warming is not economic suicide," and adaptation can have "important economic benefits in terms of the development of new technologies."
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That fee is meant to recover the outstanding debt owed to gas and electricity providers resulting from last year's three-month utility deferral program offered to struggling Albertans during the pandemic.
The provincial government announced the utility deferral program in March 2020 then formalized it with legislation a few months later.
The program allowed residential, farm and small commercial customers who used less than 250,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year — or consumed less than 2,500 gigajoules per year — to…
