State Responses to the Climate Crisis
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The response of national and sub-national states and provinces to the climate crisis has been highly mixed.
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[edit] National Responses
[edit] Canada
While Canada's planned response to climate change is still somewhat in flux, the 2006 Report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development provides good context and background on what the Auditor General thinks the federal government should be doing.
[edit] The United States
[edit] Sub-National Responses
[edit] Canadian
[edit] British Columbia
British Columbia appears to have made some of the most aggressive climate change goals of any jurisdiction in the world. This is great news, but the sudden conversion of the government must be met with caution. While the BC Throne Speech, 2007[1][2] made commitments to reduce the province's greenhouse gas emissions by 33 percent by 2020 there has already been substantive criticism about the lack of details, and the lack of money for climate change in the budget. Mitchell Anderson at the The Tyee expresses some of these concerns in his article Premier's Shaky Global Warming Pitch.
The BC Energy Plan: A Vision For Clean Energy Leadership[3] was released shortly afterwards.
