Canada Pension Plan Investments has dropped a net-zero by 2050 target for carbon emissions, according to an annual report released on Wednesday, following several Canadian financial institutions that have backtracked on climate commitments.

Several major Canadian banks, including BMO, TD Bank and CIBC, have also backtracked on climate commitments this year, announcing they were leaving a Net-Zero Banking Alliance backed by the United Nations.

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    14 days ago

    You would benefit from learning what hyperbole is. Then you would not use hyperbole to counter hyperbole.

    And everyone else downvoting a person using proper English.

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      14 days ago

      Can you explain how what I said was hyperbole? Because it was all factually accurate.

      100,000 hectares of my province burned last week because of drought conditions and unseasonally high temperatures. The resulting smoke caused my sports games to be cancelled. How can facts be hyperbolic?

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          4 days ago

          But my province literally is on fire - that’s not hyperbolic. We have 20,000 people being evacuated as their towns are (your favorite!) literally burning down.

          The guy I replied to is the one who started using the word “literally”:

          Because the world wouldn’t be literally on fire, that’s hyperbole.

          My province is literally on fire.

          1. “Nothing is literally on fire.”
          2. “My province is literally on fire.”
          3. “You’re being hyperbolic because you used the word literally”
          4. ???