Top of the Hour: Canada Withdraws From Kyoto Protocol, Morning Headlines

The Takeaway

Canada has become the first country to formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol agreement on climate change. Citing that the United States and China, the world’s two biggest carbon-emitters, are exempt from the pact, Canada’s environmental minister said, “Kyoto is not the path forward for a global solution to climate change.” The pact, adopted in 1997, is aimed at fighting global warming.

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