Across Canada, emission reductions hit 8.9% in 2020, nearly double that of B.C.
Offices, restaurants and schools shut down. As many jumped on Zoom, the commute came to an abrupt end, and with it, the tailpipe emissions of hundreds of thousands of cars.In the first year of the pandemic, carbon emissions dropped nearly five per cent from the previous year. While that represents a 3.3 megaton drop in greenhouse emissions, some are warning things could quickly turn around.
At 64.6 megatonnes in 2020, the latest figures — which are always released with a two-year lag — are on the lower end of that estimate. “To achieve that, B.C. will need to reduce its emissions by about 2.37 megatonnes per year every year between 2019 and 2025,” wrote Andrew Gage, a staff lawyer with West Coast Environmental Law, in an email.
“I was disappointed that we didn't have greater reductions,” said Merran Smith, founder and now chief innovation officer at the organization Clean Energy Canada. Frappé-Sénéclauze said most of the important policies that would bend the emissions curve have been announced in the CleanBC 2030 Roadmap, but very few of them have been put into practice.
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