Canada has revised its greenhouse gas reduction target upwards by 2030 from 2005 to 36% from 30% previously, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland announced on Monday. the government budget.
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"Canada is now in a position to reduce its emissions to approximately 36% below 2005 levels by 2030,"
specifies the 2021-2022 budget. It provides for additional investments of 17.6 billion Canadian dollars (11.6 billion euros) for a
“green recovery”
of the economy and reiterates the country's objective of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.
