Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Canada: Quebec pledges $2.7 billion to tackle climate change

Edmonton Journal: Quebec plans to spend $2.7 billion to tackle climate change by 2020. In the new 2013-20 climate-change action plan, made public in Montreal on Sunday by Premier Jean Charest, Quebec will act on a variety of fronts to meet its goal of bringing greenhouse-gas emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020. In 2009, Quebec's greenhouse-gas emissions were 2.5 per cent below 1990 levels. In order to reach its 2020 goal, Quebec estimates it would have to cut emissions by 11.7 megatonnes by 2020....

URL: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/business/Quebec+pledges+billion+tackle+climate+change/6723749/story.html

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