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As the province’s CleanBC strategy marks its first anniversary, a new report throws a spotlight on one of its largely unheralded ingredients.

Time flies when you are setting ambitious climate targets and legislating effective policies to meet them.

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It was one year ago today that Premier John Horgan and Green party leader Andrew Weaver stood on a stage in downtown Vancouver to introduce an ambitious plan to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. The March budget then allocated close to a billion dollars, spread across three years, to implement it. The government then legislated a new 2030 carbon target and, more recently, a package of measures to hold itself accountable for the plan’s commitments.

It’s a marked departure from the “hand-waving” climate strategies that we’ve seen in the past — documents that were big on promises and pretty pictures, but without tough regulations to follow through on. Instead, CleanBC is 66 pages of bold action, with teeth.