A new report by the B.C. Climate Emergency Campaign criticizes the provincial government's climate action plan, awarding it failing grades for failing to meet emission reduction targets and for insufficient policies to limit fossil fuel expansion. The report highlights the urgency of addressing climate change in light of recent extreme weather events and calls for the government to prioritize a transition to a sustainable economy.
A new report from a group tracking B.C.'s climate change response gives the provincial government multiple failing grades.
"The provincial government’s CleanBC climate action plan is insufficient to limit warming to 1.5°C and will not keep British Columbians safe from the worst impacts of climate change," it reads. Newman said B.C. already has the knowledge, skills, expertise and economic means to thwart the climate crisis and transform British Columbia.
"We maintain that all of those issues are inherently climate issues," Newman said."Equitable, justice-centred climate solutions will necessarily lessen the pain of the affordability crisis, will tackle housing insecurity and will make all of our lives healthier and safer." "We have to understand that LNG is not the answer," he said."The market is global and volatile and it's too dangerous and too destructive. So I think it's time that our governments woke up to that fact, and stop chasing the LNG rainbow and begin to commit themselves to a genuine work in regard to protecting our lands, our waters and our environment."
Eby has publicly promised to work with industry on permitting and bridge the gap between urban and rural B.C., with the latter more directly dependent on resource extraction than the former. Provincial Conservatives — largely more critical of environmental measures and inclined to support resource extraction — dominated rural B.C. in the most recent election.
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