Trump win won’t affect Alberta climate plans: environment minister
Posted Nov 14, 2016 01:47:54 PM.
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Alberta’s environment minister says the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president shouldn’t affect the province’s efforts to combat climate change.
Trump is widely expected to pull back on efforts to reduce greenhouse gases.
But in a phone call from climate meetings in Marrakesh, Morocco, Shannon Phillips says that doesn’t necessarily mean Alberta will have to as well.
She says the province’s plans don’t depend on the United States making major moves and were designed on a business-as-usual basis.
She adds jurisdictions all over the world — including China — are moving to put a price on carbon.
She believes Alberta’s climate-change initiatives will open up business and investment opportunities for the province, not restrict them.