| Manitoba Climate All Talk No Green | 6 December 15 |
Manitoba will join Ontario, Quebec and California in introducing a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Premier Greg Selinger unveiled plans for the cap-and-trade system, which would make big emitters of greenhouse gases pay for carbon, as part of the province's plan to battle climate change. It's the second time that Selinger's NDP government has tried to set an emissions-reduction target. In 2011, the province admitted that it failed to meet its Kyoto emissions-reduction pledge, which it had enshrined in law three years earlier. In 2008, the province passed a law to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to roughly 17,500 kilotones by 2012. However, in 2013 emissions peaked at more than 21,400 kilotones. Previously, Manitoba’s NDP government adopted the Kyoto Protocol and passed the Climate Change Emissions Reduction Act in 2008. The Act includes a public registry for emissions reductions, not yet in place.
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