that are spread across its wilderness, which means it has proportionally high emissions from transport, industry and energy."
It's because it's CO2 emissions:share of world population
Looked through the link. It seems it is mostly Alberta and Saskatchewan. If those two provinces changed, and quit electing right wing nut jobs, then Canada's CO2 would drop.
China is actually the world leader at pushing renewables. They have huge solar farms. They are dirty ad hell, but are doing more than most nations to get cleaner.
When they reach a comparable level to Canada, we’ll go full on clean initiative. Doing so right now would hinder our economy and allow India and China to go scott free.
No, the problem is too significant for any nations to gold back and wait. It would hurt our economy worse to continue to invest in a dying industry. We need to shut down the tar sands.