McGill climate change researchers say different focus needed to reduce emissions

Isabel Galiana, PhD student and Christopher Green, professor in the Department of Economics at McGill University: "With the Copenhagen Conference under way, Canada's position on climate policy remains unclear. True, the government says that its policy is to reduce emissions by 20 per cent from 2006 levels by 2020. This is to be achieved by energy-efficiency improvements and by caps on large emitters. The latter can meet their caps by reducing their emissions or by purchasing "offsets" or "credits" from uncovered sectors, domestically or abroad…"