B.C. Premier Campbell Signs Treaty To Fight Climate Change

The Premier of B.C. Gordon Campbell has signed onto the "International Carbon Action Partnership." This partnership will set up a carbon emission trading system and protocol.

Already several European countries, some U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and New Zealand have signed onto this agreement. So far, Manitoba and B.C. are the first provinces to step forward and partcipate in this "Western Climate Initiative."

The ICAP hopes to become a role model for the creation of a global market for heat-trapping gases. These gases many scientists believe are linked to extreme weather such as; violent hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis.

Also, the European Union has pushed ahead of the group by forming the EU emissions trading scheme in 2005. The scheme's main goal is to reduce emissions by putting a price on carbon that businesses use. The goal is for the EU and the ICAP to form together ideas and reduce greenhouse emissions.

Gordon Campbell was invited by the prime minister of Portugal on behalf of Canada to the ICAP conference. Prime minister Stephan Harper knows of Campbell's intentions on the climate change crisis. It is reported that they are both to meet tomorrow and brief about the ICAP conference.

I think that ICAP agreement is a great initiative to get countries to reduce their carbon emissions. This agreement is going to do wonders for our earth, if we can get the countries who produce the largest amount of emissions to sign and agree.