{"id":57546,"date":"2021-04-25T07:10:56","date_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57546"},"modified":"2021-04-25T07:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:10:56","slug":"with-piecemeal-budget-bc-is-headed-towards-climate-failure-critics-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=57546","title":{"rendered":"With \u2018Piecemeal\u2019 Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With \u2018Piecemeal\u2019 Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say<\/a><\/h3>\n

Province\u2019s investments are \u2018very, very small compared to the challenges.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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BC\u2019s budget is a \u2018missed opportunity to invest in things like a worker transition, electrifying the transportation sector and protecting our strongest environmental assets like old growth forests,\u2019 says Green Leader Sonia Furstenau.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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This week\u2019s B.C. budget has set the province up to miss its climate goals, according to critics.<\/p>\n

The province has pledged to cut its greenhouse gas emissions to 16 per cent below 2007 levels by 2025 and 40 per cent below by 2030. But Tuesday\u2019s budget doesn\u2019t create a clear path to hit that goal, advocates say.<\/p>\n

The most recent data on B.C.\u2019s total emissions is from 2018, when B.C. emitted a\u00a0net 66.9 million tonnes<\/a>\u00a0of greenhouse gasses, 6.2 per cent above 2007 levels.<\/p>\n

The climate plan calls on the province to cut that to 53.3 million tonnes by 2025.<\/p>\n

But emissions seem to be going up, not down, says Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law.<\/p>\n

Over the next few years, the budget\u00a0predicts<\/a>\u00a0that carbon tax revenue will increase. Dividing that revenue by the carbon tax rate shows the province expects increasing emissions for the next two years.<\/p>\n

In 2020\/21, greenhouse gas emissions covered by the tax totalled 41 million tonnes. That\u2019s projected to increase to 44.1 million tonnes this year and 44.4 million tonnes in the next year, before declining to 42.3 million tonnes in 2023\/24.<\/p>\n

Those numbers don\u2019t tell the whole picture, cautions Gage, because only 70 per cent of emissions are covered by the carbon tax. But planning on increasing emissions until 2023\/24 gives the province very little time to course correct and slash emissions to hit its 2025 goal, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that carbon-taxed emissions continue to rise until two to three years before 2025 raises questions about how we will meet that target. Particularly with LNG Canada coming online in 2025,\u201d Gage said.<\/p>\n

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With \u2018Piecemeal\u2019 Budget, BC Is Headed Towards Climate Failure, Critics Say Province\u2019s investments are \u2018very, very small compared to the challenges.\u2019 BC\u2019s budget is a \u2018missed opportunity to invest in things like a worker transition, electrifying the transportation sector and protecting our strongest environmental assets like old growth forests,\u2019 says Green Leader Sonia Furstenau. This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[94,141,379,4980,25460,23884],"class_list":["post-57546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","tag-british-columbia","tag-climate-change","tag-government","tag-government-budget","tag-michelle-gamage","tag-thetyee-ca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57547,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57546\/revisions\/57547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}