Premier John Horgan was in San Francisco on Thursday with the governors of Washington, Oregon and California to sign a climate\u002Dchange deal.
The signing took place Thursday, just days after an environmental group began its case in B.C. Supreme Court against the provincial government over allegations that the province isn’t meeting its own climate reporting standards.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
“We’ve had fires that have been unprecedented. A community called Lytton in my province no longer exists because of wildfires,” Horgan said. “We’ve had atmospheric rivers, we’ve had heat domes, terms that we’d never heard of before that have had a profound impact on our people, on our economy and our way of life.”B.C. Green party Leader Sonia Furstenau said it’s critical that the “symbolic gesture” by Horgan and his state counterparts “is followed up with real action.
Jens Wieting, Sierra Club B.C. senior forest and climate campaigner, said the agreement lacks meaningful targets to ensure the four partners meet their climate change commitments. The province set a legislated target of a 16 per cent reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions from 2007 levels by 2025, 40 per cent by 2030, 60 per cent by 2040 and 80 per cent by 2050.Article content
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