The lawsuit—filed by Ecojustice on behalf of Sierra Club B.C.—alleges the government\u0027s plan for the 2025, 2040 and 2050 climate targets is inadequate, and leaves out details on how it plans to cut carbon pollution from the oil and gas sector.
If carbon offsets from forest management projects are included, that figure increases to three per cent.Article contentOil-and-gas production and transmission are the second-largest sources of greenhouse gases in the province, after trucking and rail transportation.
“We are experiencing more extreme and escalating climate impacts around the world like the hurricane in Florida, ongoing heat waves in China, and it shows that we are running out of time to acknowledge and address the gaps in our climate action plans,” said JensThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Evidence shows that we need to stop building new fossil fuel projects to meet our climate targets. So, the question for the B.C.
Asked for comment ahead of the court case Tuesday, a spokesperson for B.C.’s Environment Ministry referred Postmedia to its earlier statement regarding the case. In May, the B.C. government filed a response to the suit, sayingamount to a difference of opinion and aren’t matters that belong in the courts.Article content
While the report doesn’t contain chapters dedicated to quantifying progress to either the 2025, 2040 or 2050 targets, its supporting material is “replete with information” about how the various steps described in the report will achieve increasing reductions over time, the government argued in its response to the suit.
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