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A8 Timks Colonist Saturday September 26 1998 CANADA ENVIRONMENT CARPET FURNITURE PI CAMIMfMIAI IICC Cost to cut greenhouse gases $100 billion, says minister HOME ULkftmiVU UHLULU SERVICES One Week Only Bonus Offer! The Bay Now Cleans Canada's Carpets Better (mraGHBaniCMiD year figure is small in relation to the combined economies of the OECD countries. "I think it's something like 0.45 per cent of the annual GDP," said the official who asked not to be named. The Gross Domestic Product is the total output of goods and services by a country. The Organization of Economic Co-operation Development is an organization representing most of the world's industrialized countries. If the 0.45-per-cent estimate were applied to Canada, with a GDP of about $600 billion, the cost would be about $2.7 billion annually.

The Brazilian estimate ignores benefits of avoiding rapid climate change, and the business opportunities that would be created by developing climate-friendly technologies, the official added. "As everyone here knows, climate change is the greatest global environmental threat we face," said Canadian Environment Minister Christine Stewart. "As we approach the new millennium, we must have a plan to reduce greenhouse gases and meet the climate change challenge head on." Even if one takes conservative expert estimates, the costs to be incurred by industrial countries in reaching this target will amount to around $100 billion per year. Jose Israel Vargas, Brazilian minister of science and technology estimates the costs to be incurred by (industrial) countries in reaching this target will amount to around $100 billion per year." The Canadian government has not provided any estimate on costs associated with the Kyoto commitment and studies by various groups have come to widely varying conclusions. An Environment Department official said he did not know how Vargas arrived at his estimate but the $100 billion-per- OTTAWA (CP) Meeting the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions will cost industrial countries about $100 billion a year, says the Brazilian minister of science and technology.

The number may sound huge, but it represents less than half of one per cent of the combined economic output of the major industrial countries. Jose Israel Vargas made the cost estimate Friday in a speech to ministers and senior officials from 22 countries meeting to discuss co-operation between industrial and developing countries in meeting the Kyoto targets. Under the legally binding Kyoto treaty, major industrial countries, including Canada, have committed themselves to cutting greenhouse gases by an average of 5.2 per cent from 1990 levels by the period 2008 to 2012. "We should remind ourselves of the scale of this gigantic endeavour," said Vargas. "The (emissions) reduction needs by 2010 may reach one billion tonnes of carbon emissions per year.

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4. '-4 -V V' mother I 3f granddaughter niece 4r i':" '4" rr a2 (5J grandmother VPOLITICS Senator vows openness on attendance OTTAWA (CP) The Senate wilf make every effort to be more open about its attendance, says Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs. The Senate moved its attendance records during the summer to its communications office and was refusing to make copies available to the public. Previously, the documents were regularly reproduced by the Senate clerk's office and provided on request. "The intent of the change was to increase not diminish access to the documents.

If you want to go in and make photocopies, that is fine. I will make sure that is in place," said Carstairs, deputy government leader in the upper house. She said the Senate will not charge for the photocopies, but those requesting documents will have to do the copying themselves on a machine supplied by the upper chamber. The public will also be informed that the attendance of senators can be tracked in the daily Senate journals, which will soon also show participation on committees as well as daily sittings. The journals are available on the Senate Web site.

Senate attendance was highlighted by the case of Andrew Thompson, who resigned this year after he declined to obey Senate orders to return to Ottawa from Mexico to explain his long absences. His truancy was the subject of news stories across the country. NOVELTIES Cigar emporium enjoys hot sales of Monica brand HALIFAX (CP) It had to happen: Someone has started selling cigars bearing the likeness of Monica Lewinsky. Darryl MacKillop, operator of Jon Alan's Cigar Emporium, said he is just trying to add a little humour to the sex scandal involving U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Clinton is alleged to have used an unlit cigar as a sex aid with Lewinsky, a former White House intern. "The label is just primarily meant as a lighthearted stab at the events happening south of the border," said MacKillop, who began sell ing the smokes this week. The cigars, dubbed "Monica Cristas" after the Cuban cigar brand "Monte Cristo," are imported from the Philippines and bear a specially-made band on each one featuring Lewinsky's face. Each cigar goes for $4.99, and MacKillop said sales are pretty hot. Broadcasters named I to Hall of Fame OTTAWA (CP) Lloyd Robertsorl, Ted Rogers and Warren Barker are among seven broadcasters, achievers and performers to be inducted this fall into the Canadian Broadcast Hall of Fame.

The newest members will be honoured at a luncheon ceremony Nov. 2 at the Canadian Association of Broadcasters convention in Vancouver. The seven new inductees bring to 146 the number of members of the Hall of Fame since it was created in 1982. Robertson is chief news anchor for CTV and has previously been named Canada's most recognized news broadcaster. Rogers has been at the heart of many broadcasting, cable and telecommunca-tions ventures.

I lis many companies operate, among other things, Rogers Cable, Rogers Cantel and 680 News in Toronto. Barker is considered a legend in British Columbia radio news, having launched his 1 i 1.1 wife So as The reasons we're asking you to run are all relative. One way or another, Breast Cancer may affect someone that's close to you. a national sponsor, Ford is encouraging everyone to get out there on Sunday, October 4th to support the CIBC Run for the Cure, raising funds for Breast Cancer Research. 1-800-618-CURE www.ford.ca career at CKNWradio in 1 952.

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