Reuters reports that Canada will pull out of the Kyoto agreement to tackle climate change, according to a Canadian government official.

While the official said Canada is in agreement with a new pact to control greenhouse emissions, saying the country objects to the fact that India, China, and other nations do not have to follow the agreement.

That development comes in the wake of a meeting on climate change in Durban, South Africa.

Representatives at the conference approved a new treaty that would also regulate emissions of developing countries like India and China. It appears that Canada will still sign on for this deal, which is slated for ratification by 2015 and would go into effect by the end of the decade.

When Canada signed the agreement in 1997, it committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 6% below 1990 levels in 2012. In 2009, however, emissions were 17% above 1990 numbers. The country announced four years ago that it would not be able to meet the regulations specified by the initial treaty.

Canadian politicians have long been maligning the 1997 protocol recently, with Environment Minister Peter Kent saying it would lead Canada to make "radical and irresponsible choices."