HIGHLIGHTS OF B.C.’S CLIMATE PLAN

Here are the highlights of B.C.’s Climate Leadership Plan released Friday. Under the plan, the provincial government will:

• Develop a strategy to reduce methane emissions.

• Introduce incentives to encourage companies to convert their vehicles to renewable natural gas.

• Expand its Clean Energy Vehicle program to encourage greater use of zeroemission vehicles by increasing point-ofsale incentives for eligible vehicles.

• Support more charging stations for electric vehicles and develop regulations so local governments can require that new buildings install adequate charging facilities.

• Improve the transportation network through its B.C. on the Move program, a 10-year plan that includes increasing the number of B.C. Transit buses that use compressed natural gas, and expanding public transit to reduce congestion, particularly in Metro Vancouver.

• Increase tree planting over an area of up to 3,000 square kilometres over the next five years to store more carbon.

• Require all of the electricity acquired by B.C. Hydro to be renewable or clean.

• Provide more incentives for marine vessels to be fuelled with cleaner burning liquefied natural gas.

• Introduce policies to encourage the development of buildings that are carbon neutral. — The Canadian Press