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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Those are tiny countries. Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world and large truck and planes have to travel long distances to deliver people and goods. Going city to city in Canada involves long drives. There's never going to be a scenario where Canada could emit less GHG than those tiny European countries where they can just hop on trains to get around.
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The large distance between cities also discourages trips that are probably made more frequently in Europe. Additionally, air travel is much cheaper in Europe and this probably isn't helping their statistics. I'm not entirely sure but I also believe that we utilize rail for the transportation of freight much more than Europe where a lot of it is road-based.
Nevertheless, we simply are not making the same effort as our European counterparts. The UK isn't a setting any green trends yet in my field they have mandatory requirements we're not even asking for voluntarily (e.g. The Merton Rule).