Reducing Pollution. Powering our Future.
CleanBC helps us use more clean and renewable energy in how we get around, heat our homes, and fuel our industry — setting us on the path to a cleaner, brighter future.
Better Buildings
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Helping you conserve energy and making your home healthier and more comfortable.
Reducing pollution from industry
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Making B.C. industries the cleanest in the world by using clean energy to power our industrial economy.
Cleaner transportation
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Making electric cars more affordable, investing in charging stations, and shifting to renewable fuels.
Reducing emissions from waste
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Diverting waste from landfills and reducing polluting emissions.
Clean energy jobs
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Making B.C. cleaner will create good jobs that support families and sustain our communities.
What This Looks Like
To protect our communities and set us on the path to a stronger, more sustainable future, we will need to transform the buildings we work and live in, how we get around, and how we power our economy and use cleaner energy.
The Province of British Columbia is developing a climate preparedness and adaptation strategy to help ensure that communities across B.C. can prepare for a changing climate.
Building partnerships with indigenous communities
We will work in collaboration with Indigenous communities and businesses to seize new clean economy opportunities and help communities adapt to the impacts of climate change.
We’re making B.C.’s industries the cleanest in the world
The CleanBC program for industry will reduce industrial emissions by 2.5 Mt per year.
SAVE SOME GREEN
CleanBC means by 2030, fossil fuel use for transportation will have dropped 20%.
Learn more about rebates to buy a clean energy vehicle.
By 2030, 60% of homes will use clean energy – and less of it!
CleanBC means by 2030, 60% of homes and 40% of commercial buildings will be heated with clean electricity.
95% of organic waste will be diverted from landfills and turned into renewable resources by 2030
CleanBC means by 2030, 75% of landfill methane will be captured.
By 2040, all new cars sold in BC will be zero-emission vehicles
CleanBC means by 2030, 30% of all sales of new light-duty cars and trucks will be zero-emission vehicles, rising to 100% by 2040.
By 2032, new buildings will be 80% more efficient than a home built today
CleanBC means by 2030, 70,000 homes and 10 million metres squared of commercial buildings will be retrofitted to use clean electricity in space heating.
Learn more about rebates to make your home warmer and more energy efficient.
Our clean tech firms are leading the country, creating thousands of jobs and billions in revenues
The CleanBC Labour Readiness Plan will identify the labour and workplace opportunities that emerge as we build a low-carbon economy.
Get up to $2,000 to convert home heating to heat pumps.
CleanBC means by 2030, 70,000 homes will be retrofitted to use clean electricity for space heating.
Learn more about rebates to make your home warmer and more energy efficient.
We’re cutting methane emissions from oil and gas production by 45%
CleanBC means reducing methane emissions from upstream oil and gas operations through electrification, leak detection, and monitoring.
We’re making industrial transportation cleaner – reducing emissions that cause heart and lung diseases
CleanBC means reducing harmful emissions from the transport of goods.
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Kathy Kinloch
President of BCIT – Chair of Emerging Economy Task Force
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“B.C.’s transition towards a low carbon economy opens up unprecedented economic opportunity for our province. The CleanBC strategy lays out a plan to build a strong and diverse economy with innovation at its core. We look forward to continuing our work with government to make sure good jobs and economic growth are realized in communities throughout B.C.”
Jay Inslee
Governor of Washington
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"At a time when we are being reminded daily of the immediate and growing threat posed by climate change, British Columbia is helping blaze a trail toward hope and opportunity. Premier Horgan's vision builds on B.C.'s history of climate leadership and building momentum for action along the west coast and beyond."
Karen Tam Wu
B.C. Director – Pembina Institute
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"B.C.'s new climate plan signals an exciting vision for a clean economy. In just over 10 years, all new homes and buildings will be low carbon. In just over 20 years, all new cars sold will be zero-emissions. Going forward, we will generate more clean electricity and renewable fuels, and burn less oil and gas. With other provinces faltering on climate action, B.C.’s climate strategy brings hope for all Canadians concerned about the well-being of their families and communities."
Greg D’Avignon
Business Council of British Columbia
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"Climate change is a global challenge. Tools within the CleanBC plan support the Low-Carbon Industrial Strategy and position B.C. businesses and the province to be a supplier of choice for international markets seeking lower-carbon intensive energy, commodities and other inputs for their expanding economies. Acting on these strategies, British Columbia can play an outsized role in reducing global climate impacts in high-emission jurisdictions, while building a competitive and innovative economy for British Columbians and reducing emissions here at home."
Marcia Smith
Teck Resources
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"This new strategy recognizes that by maintaining B.C.’s economic competitiveness, we will be able to provide the commodities, goods and innovation the world needs for the transition to a low carbon future. This is a tremendous economic opportunity that B.C. industries and communities are well-positioned to seize on to create jobs and prosperity."
Jerry Brown
Governor of California
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"British Columbia’s plan to cut carbon pollution is smart, ambitious and achievable. This is the sort of action every province in Canada and every state in America must take to turn the tide."
Prem Gill
CEO – Creative BC
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"As the organization responsible for the creative industries’ economic growth, Creative BC proudly supports the new CleanBC plan. It is through initiatives like the Reel Green strategic collaboration that B.C.’s film and T.V. production industries are showing global leadership with sustainable production practices that are reducing our carbon footprint."
Catherine McKenna
Federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada
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"British Columbia has shown real leadership on climate action in Canada and on the world stage. A decade ago, British Columbia put a price on pollution, and has since cut pollution, led the country in economic growth and built the fastest-growing clean tech sector in Canada. Their climate leadership is good for the environment and it’s good for the economy."
Mark Jaccard
Professor – Simon Fraser University
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"This plan returns B.C. to global climate leadership. Ten years ago, our world-leading clean electricity standard prevented two coal and one natural gas plants - keeping our electricity zero-emission. Today's adoption of the ZEV mandate combined with the Low Carbon Fuel Standard put B.C. as a world leader in decarbonizing transportation in an affordable way. These are the two critical sectors for reducing GHGs in wealthier countries but especially in developing countries."
Laird Cronk
President – B.C. Federation of Labour
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"The government’s clean growth strategy represents a historic opportunity to develop a new, sustainable economy that works for working people in all communities across the province. We’re committed to working together on just and fair transition strategies to protect existing workers and to ensure that new employment opportunities created by the CleanBC plan are good, family- and community-supporting jobs."
Merran Smith
Clean Energy Canada
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"The true test of a government’s climate change plan is whether it puts us on course to cut pollution while building momentum for our transition to clean energy. CleanBC provides a framework to do just that, and with a clear commitment to deliver results, the B.C. government and B.C. Greens are poised to resurrect the province’s role as a climate leader."
Stephen Cornish
CEO - David Suzuki Foundation
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"Most British Columbians know climate change is harming us now and we need to respond. Today, the B.C. government delivered Phase 1 of a plan that repositions the Province as a Canadian climate leader. British Columbians can be proud to be at the forefront of landmark solutions for transportation and renewable energy. "
Kate Brown
Governor of Oregon
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"Congratulations to Premier Horgan and British Columbia for taking bold new steps to tackle climate change and build the clean energy economy of the future. As recent scientific reports have indicated, we have no time to waste and states and provinces must work together to lead the way as we challenge climate change. "
Hannah Askew
Executive Director – Sierra Club BC
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"CleanBC is a bold and welcome step forward in the race to combat the climate crisis and secure a better future for British Columbians. It will benefit those of us here today and upcoming generations. CleanBC demonstrates how, in today’s polarized world, we can come together to turn the climate challenge into opportunities for a more just world of shared prosperity and resilience, and to protect the natural world on which we all depend."
Maria Dobrinskaya
B.C. Director - Broadbent Institute
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"When other provinces are notably opposing carbon pricing and opportunities to embrace a cleaner future, the leadership from the B.C. government demonstrated in this climate strategy is very encouraging. CleanBC highlights that not only is there no conflict between prosperity and bold climate action, but there is significant opportunity for strong economic development – for workers, for industry and for communities across our province."
Ian Cullis
Director - B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association
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"CleanBC provides a clear path to meeting B.C.’s climate targets, outlining reductions for each sector of the economy. The community housing sector consumes 2,564.23 terajoules of natural gas. B.C. Non-Profit Housing Association works closely with BC Housing, FortisBC and BC Hydro to successfully reduce emissions. CleanBC will enable us to further reduce emissions and costs to tenants, creating affordable and financially sustainable buildings for low-income families across B.C."
Andrew Gage
West Coast Environmental Law
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"With some governments moving away from real climate action, we are excited to see our provincial government with a credible and ambitious map of how it is going to achieve its 2030 climate targets. There are still details to be filled in and hard questions to be answered, but we finally have a plan and a transparent process for making sure that the plan gets completed and implemented. Congratulations to the B.C. Government."
Bob Chant
SVP, Corporate Affairs and Communication – Loblaw Companies Limited
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“Loblaw is committed to reducing our Carbon Footprint by 30% by 2030 and we commend the BC government on their comprehensive plan. We look forward to working with the government to lower emissions across British Columbia.”
Ken Denman
Professor - University of Victoria
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“The CleanBC climate and economic plan wisely recognizes that there is no 'silver bullet' that alone will mitigate climate change. Nor can we wait for an international climate agreement to be reached and eventually implemented by national governments. Much careful thought and work buttresses this plan, which consists of many smaller measures where emissions can be reduced. At the same time, these planned measures will, in many cases, stimulate the provincial economy.”