French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a national โcarbon taxโ on global-warming pollutants and a European levy on imports from countries outside the Kyotoย Protocol.
Sarkozy mentioned no names, but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States and Australia, the only advanced economies that remain outside the UN‘s landmark pact on greenhouse-gasย emissions.
Seemingly unlikely alliances are springing up in Canada and the U.S. to prevent rural communities from becoming a โtoxic CO2 dumping groundโ.
New controversy adds to scrutiny of party's finances.
The prime minister should consider the potential outcomes of siding with his Bay Street buddies and oil industry bigwigs over climate-beleaguered Canadians.
As the company faces a landmark climate lawsuit, confidential documents show how British scientist James Lovelock warned executives of the risks of burning fossil fuels in the 1960s.
