At last, some good news on the environmental front!
Vancouverite and Six-time City Councillor and current Director of Simon Fraser University’s City Program, Gordon Price blogs about California leading the way in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
The Governor and Legislature, though from opposing political parties, have agreed to a plan that aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Not quite Kyoto, but nonetheless precedent-setting for the largest emitter in the U.S. and the world’s eighth-largest economy.
I say, better than nothing!
Price isn’t so optimistic about BC, however:
While California acts, we as a province and nation delay. The failure to set realistic goals to reduce greenhouse gases, to establish the rules, to set up the trading mechanisms, means we will be less competitive and more vulnerable.
