Centre for Civic Governance

West Coast Environmental Law Comments on Metro Vancouver 2040 Shaping Our Future

West Coast provided comments on Metro Vancouver’s latest draft of a new Regional Growth Strategy (RGS), entitled Metro Vancouver 2040: Shaping Our Future ( November 2009 draft). While West Coast supports the direction and goals of the new draft RGS and the range of strategies proposed, we have concerns that many of the actions and processes stipulated as the means to accomplish those goals reflect a lack of commitment to concerted, firm action by member municipalities.

A New Climate for Conservation - Nature, Carbon and Climate Change in British Columbia - Full Report

This report reviews the scientific and technical literature on climate change and biodiversity in British Columbia. It examines the scientific rationale behind the need for conserving natural ecosystems as a critical component of a climate action plan in four key areas: sequestering carbon, avoiding emissions, managing resilience and maximizing stocks and flows of ecosystem services.

Woodworking unions and environmentalists propose bold new plan to protect forests and jobs while fighting climate change

Vancouver — Forest industry unions and leading environmental groups have united behind a plan that calls on the BC government to conserve more forest, halt rampant wood waste and promote wise use of forest products — all as part of a concerted effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Canadians unhappy with PM's climate performance

A new on-line poll suggests that Canadians were not overly enthused with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s performance last month at the climate-change summit in Copenhagen.

Just 28 per cent of the1,013 Canadian adults who were randomly selected to take part in Angus-Reid’s public-opinion forum said they were content with the leadership shown by Mr. Harper. Almost half (48 per cent) were dissatisfied.