Environment Commissioner says Canada is falling far behind in its plan to reduce greenhouse gases

The Environment Commissioner released an audit outlining Canada’s destined failure to meet its greenhouse gas reduction targets.

According to the Globe & Mail Environment Commissioner Scott Vaughan said the federal government isn’t moving fast enough to regulate Canadian industry to fulfill its former Kyoto obligations or the replacement targets it set for itself.  Although the federal government has reduced some emissions Vaughan says there's a serious lack in effective planning and coordination among federal departments.

Environment Minister Peter Kent shot-back stating Vaughan lacked the appropriate numbers.  Kent also pointed to his party’s successes over the former Liberal government  in reducing emissions and its current talks with the provinces to work together on the issue.

The Conservative government backed-out of the Kyoto Protocol in 2011 because it thought its expectations were unrealistic and too costly for the Canadian economy.