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Provincial government sets new target for cutting greenhouse gases by 2025
BY , Dec 17, 2020 10:20 PM - REPORT AN ERROR
B.C. Environment and Climate Change Strategy Minister George Heyman speaks during an announcement at Burns Bog, in Delta, B.C., on Monday, June 29, 2020. The British Columbia government is setting a new target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2025 after determining it is further from reaching its climate action goals than previously forecasted. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
BC's government has set a new target for cutting greenhouse gases by 2025.
Target has been set after determining it was further from reaching its goals than previously forecasted.
The new target requires greenhouse gases in BC to fall 16 per cent below 2007 levels within the next five years.
A government report says emissions rose in 2018 due to increases in fuel consumed in heavy-duty diesel vehicles, among other things.
Environment Minister George Heyman says completing a plan to reach the legislated targets has been more challenging than anticipated.
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