B.C. splashed onto the global climate scene in 2008 when then-premier Gordon Campbell introduced North America’s first economy-wide carbon tax, enacted stringent vehicle emission standards, introduced a low-carbon fuels regulation and required the provincial government (including schools, hospitals and Crown agencies) to be carbon neutral by 2010.
A decade later, premier John Horgan brought in a CleanBC plan that not only strengthened many of the previous government’s climate policies, but introduced a suite of new measures, including a more ambitious emissions reduction target set in law, an EV availability standard and new rules to reduce oil and gas emissions.
Seventeen years on and the evidence is clear: B.C. has
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