Climate action and accountability
Putting CleanBC into action
The Kanaka Bar Indian Band is combining sustainability and affordable community housing with their latest project, The Crossing Place.Read more
Putting CleanBC into action
The Copper Mountain mine is showing that clean industry is the way of the future with its new high-powered electric trolley system.Read more
Putting CleanBC into action
The BC Children’s Hospital and BC Women’s Hospital campus is finding a new way to use existing energy with a heat-recovery retrofit.Read more
Through CleanBC, the Province works with a range of partners to reduce emissions, create opportunities and manage risks from our changing climate. Learn more about B.C.’s progress and actions.
Each year, government publishes a climate change accountability report with the latest details on CleanBC actions and information on B.C.’s progress to our greenhouse gas targets.
Highlights from the 2020 Climate Change Accountability Report
- Made cleaner options more affordable with rebates under CleanBC’s Go Electric and Better Homes and Better Buildings Program
- Improved availability of electric and hybrid vehicles to ensure all new light-duty vehicles are zero-emissions by 2040
- Started infrastructure and energy projects through the CleanBC Communities Fund, CleanBC Industry Fund and BC Indigenous Clean Energy Initiative, among many others
- Worked with the federal government to significantly expand the clean electrical grid to provide clean electricity to B.C. communities, businesses, and industry
- Increased stringency of B.C.’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard to 20% by 2030
- Completed a first of its kind climate risk assessment for B.C. and contributed millions to help reduce wildfire, flooding, and drought
- Launched the CleanBC Plastics Action Plan to prevent, reduce and recycle plastics in our communities and environment
- Achieved 10 years of carbon neutrality across 128 provincial public sector organizations
Read the 2020 Accountability Report 2020 Supporting Materials Climate Action Legislation
CleanBC at work
Business, governments and communities are putting CleanBC into action. Read their stories.
Preparing for a changing climate
See how CleanBC is making sure that people and communities have the support they need to be ready for the effects of climate change.
Climate action reporting
Get more detailed results from our annual Climate Change Accountability and CleanBC Methodology Reports.
Climate Solutions Council
Learn about the independent Climate Solutions Council that provides advice to government on climate action and clean economic growth.
Data and inventories
View B.C.’s provincial greenhouse gas emissions inventory as well as those from industrial facilities, local governments and more.