March 31, 2025
VICTORIA, B.C. – The BC Green Caucus is calling on the provincial government to address major gaps in its climate action roadmap. Carbon emissions are up 17% since 1990 and, according to a recent report, the province’s emissions were almost exactly the same in 2024 as they were in 2007.
“We’re headed in the wrong direction,” said Jeremy Valeriote, Interim Leader of the BC Greens and MLA for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky. “CleanBC, the government’s plan for climate action, which the BC Greens will review as part of CARGA, continues to paint an incomplete picture of BC’s emissions trajectory.”
The program, so far, has failed to account for major CO2 increases across British Columbia, according to a BC Auditor General Report. And an independent third party report reveals that the government’s data doesn’t include two significant sources of emissions, putting B.C. even further from its climate targets.
A BC Green Caucus-commissioned report found that wildfire emissions last year were excluded from the province’s official emissions reporting—despite B.C.’s forests emitting five times more carbon than the province’s entire economy.
Emissions from fossil fuel exports also go uncounted, even as LNG expansion drives them higher. Exports from two new LNG terminals will further drive up emissions, yet these numbers won’t appear on B.C.’s GHG balance sheet.
“The government is failing to transparently report BC’s full carbon footprint,” said Valeriote. “If we’re serious about reducing emissions and tackling climate change, we need to be honest about the full scope of our carbon output—and we have yet to see what that is. We can’t keep making climate policy decisions based on incomplete data.
Instead of addressing these critical gaps, the government’s only climate plan appears to be repealing the carbon tax. Now is not the time to be backing away from our climate commitments. On a day when the government might abandon carbon pricing entirely, British Columbians deserve the truth about our province’s climate impact—and a government willing to take real action.”
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Media contact
Ryan Hook
Press Secretary
BC Green Caucus
+1 250-882-6187 | ryan.hook@leg.bc.ca