> BC, Ontario and many other provinces made emission reduction promises for 2020 back is the early 2000’s. It’s already clear these won’t be met, so I am dubiou

> BC, Ontario and many other provinces made emission reduction promises for 2020 back is the early 2000’s. It’s already clear these won’t be met, so I am dubious of the province to meet something this far off What promises did BC make? I wasn't able to find the specific promises, so I can't tell what you mean. BC is currently sitting at about -30% per capita CO2 emissions relative to 2000 [1]. Total emissions reduction isn't quite as impressive, but they have still reduced CO2 while increasing population and GDP.[2] Hard to say more without knowing what you're referencing, but it's still significantly better than most jurisdictions! Ontario is not really the scope of these comments, but I took a look out of curiousity. Back in 2006, they set goals for 2014, 2020, 2030, and 2050. They met the 2014 goal [3], mostly through reduction of co2 emissions in the electricity sector. To meet the 2020 goals, they needed a bigger reduction, and had a strong plan[4] to meet it - subsidize electric cars, cap and trade industrial emissions, etc - but they elected a populist idiot who scrapped all that. So I agree that Ontario won't meet their 2020 goal. [1] http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/sustainability/images/ghg_pop_plot.svg http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/sustainability/image... [2] http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/sustainability/ghg-emissions.html http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/soe/indicators/sustainability/ghg-e... [3] https://media.assets.eco.on.ca/web/2016/11/2016-Annual-GHG-Report_Chapter-2.pdf https://media.assets.eco.on.ca/web/2016/11/2016-Annual-GHG-R... [4] https://media.assets.eco.on.ca/web/2016/11/2016-Annual-GHG-Report_Chapter-4.pdf https://media.assets.eco.on.ca/web/2016/11/2016-Annual-GHG-R...