Canadian: Canada Ranked Fourth Best Country On Human Development Index
The latest release of the annual United Nations Development Program's Report for 2007-8 on Climate Change and Human Development has Canada sitting at number four on the development index. Last year the UN ranked Canada at sixth overall.
John Baird the minister in charge of the environment in Canada has responded to the report by saying, "Canada will continue to work hard within the UN-led process this December in Indonesia, to ensure that the world heeds the warnings on climate change. Our Government shares the United Nations' belief that the upcoming conference in Indonesia will start the process towards a post-2012 agreement. We will work constructively with our international partners to establish a way forward on an agreement that is global, balanced and achievable."
Clearly wanting Canadians to think that the Conservative government has delivered on the environment while being only one of two Western industrialized nations to stall on all recent climate change agreements, of which Baird says, "This report reinforces what our Government has been saying again and again - that climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today."
The UN report is conducted by rating most of the countries in the world on educational, economic and health indicators. This data is correlated into their human development index.
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