The lawsuit — filed by Ecojustice on behalf of Sierra Club B.C. — alleges the government’s 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.
VANCOUVER — The provincial government will be in B.C. Supreme Court on Tuesday for two days to face allegations from environmental groups that it has failed to provide an adequate plan to meet greenhouse-gas emission targets to fight climate change.
The first target — 2025 — is three years away and requires a reduction of 16 per cent below 2007 emissions levels. However, the latest data from the government show that in 2020, B.C. only reached a one per cent reduction below 2007 levels. If carbon offsets from forest management projects are included, that figure increases to three per cent.
“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 Jens Wieting, a senior climate campaigner with the Sierra Club on Saturday.
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, saying the case should be thrown out. It argued the issues raised by the Sierra Club amount to a difference of opinion and aren’t matters that belong in the courts.
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