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The former wonât surprise anyone, resident or not, but many Vancouverites might not realize that the latter is fairly unique to this watery city.
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B.C. has the highest uptake of electric vehicles in North America, and in the Vancouver region, EV adoption is even higher. In 2020, 11 per cent of new cars in Metro Vancouver were zero-emission, compared to only 2.4 per cent in Toronto and 3.5 per cent across the country. In the City of Vancouver, the figure is thought to be even higher: between 12 and 17 per cent. In fact, there were more new EVs registered in Metro Vancouver alone last year than the whole province of Ontario.
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The last year has seen a sea change, and not only in the obvious COVID-19-induced sense. Consider the U.S., the EU, the U.K., Germany, and Japan â what do they all have in common? Aside from being a whoâs-who list of our closest allies and trading partners, these world-shaping jurisdictions have plans to invest billions of dollars into building cleaner economies. They also have recently increased climate targets to match the scale of their ambition.
Canada belongs on that list as well, of course, having announced both clean investments in last monthâs federal budget alongside an increased climate target days later.
/CNW/ - Today, the Mining Association of Canada (MAC) is releasing a new Towards Sustainable Mining® (TSM) Climate Change Protocol designed to minimize the.