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The B.C. Government is making climate change a top priority. Its provincial strategy addresses climate change through a wide range of measures, and on two main fronts:
Mitigation: reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and enhancing carbon sinks (e.g., forests, soils and ocean) that remove carbon dioxide and other GHGs from the atmosphere. This is expected to slow the rate and extent of climate change.
Adaptation: preparing for, and adjusting to, unavoidable climate change and its impacts.
In British Columbia, governments, businesses, industry, nongovernmental organizations, First Nations and private citizens are taking action on climate change.
Ultimately, all sectors of our society and economy will have a role to play in substantially reducing B.C.’s GHG emissions and adapting successfully to climate change.
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