About 190 countries have gathered in Bali to work toward a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. The two-week conference wraps up on Friday.
Environmentalists have accused the Tories of deliberately undermining the climate talks, with several provincial governments, including Ontario and Quebec, and a number of foreign delegations echoing their criticism.
Stéphane Dion the former environment minister criticized the Tories on Tuesday for saying they won't accept a climate deal unless it includes major polluters like the United States, China and India.
"This everything-or-nothing attitude is a recipe for failure," Dion told a conference of municipal leaders in Bali. "It's certainly not enough to say, 'I will do something only if the others do something.'"
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Environmentalists have accused the Tories of deliberately undermining the climate talks, with several provincial governments, including Ontario and Quebec, and a number of foreign delegations echoing their criticism.
Stéphane Dion the former environment minister criticized the Tories on Tuesday for saying they won't accept a climate deal unless it includes major polluters like the United States, China and India.
"This everything-or-nothing attitude is a recipe for failure," Dion told a conference of municipal leaders in Bali. "It's certainly not enough to say, 'I will do something only if the others do something.'"
Full Story
Can climate change be averted if major polluters like the United States, China and India are not part of the deal? Is Canada's posistion on this correct?
More...