The registry is required to demonstrate Canada's compliance with its 2012 emissions target and to participate in the Kyoto Protocol emissions cap and trade mechanism.
"The government of Canada is in the process of establishing (the registry), and has been in this process for some time," said Prime Minister Stephen Harper, blaming the delay on a previous administration.
Canada had agreed under the international Kyoto Protocol to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to 6.0 percent below 1990 levels by 2012, but emissions have instead increased by more than 35 percent.
Last year, the government outlined a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent, based on 2006 levels, by 2020, saying the targets agreed to by the previous administration were unattainable.
It is currently impossible to meet the Kyoto requirements without changing our lives beyond recognition. That we recognized that rather then commit to feel good goals that just are not possible is a positive thing, no matter what the enviro-wacko's tell you.
DKK
AFP -- Canada rapped over Kyoto registry
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