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This Tyee Solutions Society series sets out to consider just what B.C.'s four-year-old Climate Action Plan has and hasn't accomplished so far, including what informed observers say deserves rethinking. Veteran journalists Chris Pollon and Tom Barrett take the measure of Carbon Plan support -- or not -- in today's political context; look in on how B.C.'s unique-in-North-America carbon tax is working out; pull back the curtain on the mysterious world of carbon "offsets"; and more.
This series was produced by Tyee Solutions Society (TSS) in collaboration with Tides Canada Initiatives Society. Funding for this series was provided by the Bullitt Foundation and Hospital Employees' Union. All funders sign releases guaranteeing TSS full editorial autonomy. TSS funders and Tides Canada Initiatives neither influence nor endorse the particular content of TSS' reporting. To republish articles from this series, please contact TSS editor Chris Wood here.
This series has been compiled in an easy-to-share special edition PDF. Click here to download a copy.
Today begins a series on how the province's carbon reduction plans are working, or not.
Premier Clark inherited bold climate policies and strong pressures on all sides. What will she do?
Experts are divided on what the levy has achieved and how it must evolve.
Tyee Solutions Society project probes real results of BC's stated climate policies.
California beckons with new market for emissions offsets. Will we join soon?
Not everyone's buying the math the government uses to make its claim.
Whatever its flaws, BC's quest for carbon neutrality is getting some things done in the public sector.
Making hospitals and schools transfer tight dollars to corporations is no easy climate policy to sell.
As BC Liberals revisit their approach to a carbon neutral public sector, some advice they'll likely get.
How a law supposed to require low carbon gasoline and diesel spares the oil sands at the atmosphere's expense.
This Haisla tale is proof that stories hold power to change the world.
