There is a coalition of Western states and Canadian provinces called the Western Climate Initiative that collaborate for ways to lower greenhouse gas emissions in the region. The states are Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Quebec, Utah, and Washington; and four Canadian provinces: British Columbia and Manitoba in the west, and Ontario and Quebec in the east. Last week this Initiative proposed a regional market based cap and trade program.
An article by Environmental News Service said, “The emissions trading program is intended to reduce climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions by 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.” It also said that, “The carbon reduction strategy will cover nearly 90 percent of the region’s emissions, including those from electricity, industry, transportation, and residential and commercial fuel use.” Impressive.
I especially liked the decision to let the market determine the most cost effective way to reduce emissions in a particular are. What troubles me is that a vast area of Canada is trying to voluntarily clean up as are some of our western states while many states like Michigan have failed to even produce a decent RPS, Renewable Portfolio Standards. Outside of fences in the sky, I would surmise that our pollution would continually slide over into cleaner territory. Not fair is it?
If as many governments are taking an initiative to curb emissions, it won’t be long before all of our states follow suit or risk looking like the bad guys spewing debris into their clean skies. Perhaps this will also help us understand what we have done to other nations at the receiving end of our pollution trail.
Read more: http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/sep2008/2008-09-23-04.asp.
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