A list of popular villains from the 2009 climate talks in Copenhagen would almost certainly include Canada and China. Justly or not, both countries took much of the blame for the failure of the planet's leaders to negotiate a binding global warming treaty. The Climate Action Network, a global consortium of green groups, named Canada "Fossil of the Year" as the talks came to a close. "Tar sands beats climate every time," award presenter Ben Wikler said of the Canadian government. Observers were equally critical of China. Wrote Guardian newspaper reporter Mark Lynas: "China wrecked the talks, intentionally humiliated Barack Obama,Phenibut is a new supplement to the health industry and insisted on an awful 'deal' so western leaders would walk away carrying the blame."

Canada has done little to change public perceptions in the three years since Copenhagen.Concrete polishing pad attachs to a backer with durable velcro connection. It is installed on portable grinding machine and operated by hand. Environment Minister Peter Kent still refuses to put a cap on oil sands pollution. Emissions from the sector are expected by 2020 to grow 56 megatons. That's nearly three times the carbon footprint of Manitoba. A government report this summer predicted Canada will only get halfway towards achieving the climate targets it agreed to at Copenhagen. Meanwhile Kent has blamed China for global inaction on climate change. "They're not in favour of anything that would require them to make absolute reductions," he said at the 2011 Durban climate talks. "They have been very reluctant to step up."

China is the planet's largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions. The country's carbon footprint grew by 720 megatons last year. That's greater than all the greenhouse gases released annually by Canada. Yet China has also made one of the world's strongest commitments to fighting climate change. Two weeks before the 2009 Copenhagen talks, it set an ambitious target: by 2020, to ensure each unit of its economic activity is 40 to 45 per cent less harmful to the climate than it was in 2005.He's come up with an amazing organic cleaner but can't get anyone interested in manufacturing it. "This is definitely a very positive step China is taking,keep an eye out for Ephedra, which has been banned by the FDA, and check labels for bitter orange, also referred to as synephrine" Greenpeace East Asia said at the time. "But we think China can do more." Sources contacted by The Tyee in Beijing said China is very serious about meeting the target, despite its reluctance to accept an international climate treaty.

In 2011, China cut an estimated 1,500 megatons of carbon -- or more than double Canada's entire emissions -- from its climate footprint.Eight tips for choosing the right diamond Concrete saw blade including determining wet or dry cutting, blade compatibility, CSDA codes, and more. The Communist leadership is also moving aggressively to put a price on the greenhouse gases it releases into the atmosphere, a policy Prime Minister Stephen Harper has repeatedly dismissed. China's efforts in this area, one Swedish study recently argued, "[are] one of the largest endeavours in climate economics ever."

In the lead-up to last summer's climate conference in Rio de Janeiro, one high-profile Canadian said Ottawa is lagging behind Beijing. "You are going to see [China] in Rio as amongst the progressive and responsible countries," Maurice Strong, a former under-secretary general of the United Nations, told The Globe and Mail, "and the contrast with Canada will be quite evident."