TORONTO — Ontario is unlikely to meet its 2030 emissions target under its current climate change plan — and Premier Doug Ford’s government knows it, the province’s auditor general said Wednesday in her annual report. But, the auditor found, the plan will only reduce emissions by between 6.3 and 13 megatonnes. Ontario’s plan estimates emissions reductions based on three scenarios: business as usual with no new climate policies, the current climate change plan, and if additional or enhanced policies are pursued. Document had declared 2030 target ‘achievable’It is the additional policy scenario that eyes a 17.6-megatonne reduction, Lysyk said, with the current plan pegged at 10.9 megatonnes. But the plan released to the public merged the expected reductions from those two scenarios, with the document declaring the 2030 target “achievable,” Lysyk wrote.

Source: Huffington Post December 04, 2019 18:33 UTC