QUEBEC CITY – Environment Minister David Heurtel has announced an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Quebec.
Over the next 15 years, the province wants to cut emissions to just over a third of 1990 levels.
This is just one of the targets proposed by the province’s consultation committee on climate change.
“In Quebec, we do have a system of cap and trade that generates revenue for the government and that revenue gets recycling into the government to promote a transition to a more carbon neutral economy,” said Carlos Leitao, Quebec’s Finance Minister.
Quebec will present its targets at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year.
The 37.5 per cent target is the most ambitious in Canada.
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard will be in Montreal Thursday afternoon to continue the conversation.
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