New federal data shows B.C.’s emissions increased by more than three percent in 2022 compared to 2021 - Sierra Club BC
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New federal data shows B.C.’s emissions increased by more than three percent in 2022 compared to 2021

New federal data shows B.C.’s emissions increased by more than three percent in 2022 compared to 2021

Photo by Mya Van Woudenberg/Sierra Club BC.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

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The federal inventory data on B.C. and B.C.’s own data (currently only available up to 2021) are difficult to compare because they count emissions in slightly different ways, resulting in different sets of numbers (e.g. the federal data shows B.C.’s 2007 emissions as 62.2 million tonnes, and B.C.’s own data shows them as 63.8 million tonnes).

The federal data is important for the province because it becomes available months earlier and shows a trend. B.C.’s emissions are back to pre-pandemic levels and close to the level of our baseline year (2007). Time is running out to meet our ambitious 2030, 2040 and 2050 targets, and new fossil fuel projects and drastically growing pollution caused by climate impacts like wildfires threaten to undermine good steps in the right direction.