Media Release
For Immediate Release April 13, 2005
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Canada’s Kyoto implementation plan a welcome first
step
VICTORIA – The president of the British Columbia Sustainable
Energy Association (BCSEA) today greeted the the federal
government’s new Kyoto implementation plan as a welcome
first step in the transition to a genuinely sustainable future
and eventually a fossil-fuel-free energy supply.
“Global climate change is the most serious issue we
face on our planet, and it is good that Canada has finally
come forward with a plan,” said president Guy Dauncey
in Victoria, B.C. “We congratulate the government on
having produced a working plan to reduce these emissions.”
“However, we are disappointed that industry, which
produces 50% of Canada's GHG emissions, is being asked to
contribute only a 13% share of the reduction,” he stated.
Although it welcomes the final arrival of the long-delayed
Kyoto implementation plan, BCSEA views the Kyoto protocol
itself only as a first step in a world-wide process of creating
a future global economy based on sustainable energy sources
and not on fossil fuels.
“Kyoto will deliver at most a 2% overall reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions below the 1990 level. What is
needed is an 80% reduction,” said Dauncey. “We
see this happening through a wide range of new technologies,
plus policies to accelerate their introduction,” he
explained.
The 400+ members of the rapidly-growing sustainable energy
association envisage a future in which Canadians no longer
use fossil fuels, and greenhouse gas emissions are eliminated.
BCSEA is pleased to see that the federal government’s
Kyoto Plan includes both support for renewable energy and
the establishment of a Climate Change Fund that will be a
major support for Canadian initiatives to reduce greenhouse
gas production throughout Canada.
Next week, the BCSEA will release a policy document indicating
many ways in which the provincial government can move towards
quickly reducing B.C.’s greenhouse gas emissions.
For more information please contact: Guy Dauncey, president,
BCSEA (250) 881-1304
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