CleanBC Review
Overview
Dates: June 19 to August 1
Who: The Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions
What: An independent review of CleanBC policies and programs
Where: Province-wide
Why: To develop recommendations about next steps for the province’s climate action efforts
How: Online
Engagement summary
The Province is launching an independent review of CleanBC programs to ensure they are effectively reducing emissions, making life more affordable, and supporting a strong economy.
Two independent climate policy experts, Merran Smith and Dan Woynillowicz, are leading the review. They want to hear from people across the province to learn what’s working well, what could be better, and what more can be done.
Merran Smith is the president of New Economy Canada and has decades of leadership and partnership with industries, governments, and communities. She is recognized as an advocate and thought leader in advancing Canada’s clean economy, with career highlights that include founding Clean Energy Canada and leadership in the Great Bear Rainforest agreement. Smith was a board member of BC Hydro and co-chair of B.C.’s Climate Solutions Council, which advised government on CleanBC.
Dan Woynillowicz launched Polaris Strategy + Insight, a strategic advisory firm that helps clients navigate energy transitions and climate solutions. He blends policy expertise with an understanding of technology innovation and market transformation. He is a volunteer adviser to Urban Climate Solutions and the Clean Economy Fund, and was board chair of the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy (CICE) for five years. Woynillowicz also served as an external advisor to the BC Hydro Task Force.
This engagement is about looking ahead as well as reviewing past efforts. Where should CleanBC go from here, and how can we get there?
How to provide feedback
Online survey
Everyone is encouraged to take the online survey.
If you have direct involvement in areas related to CleanBC, please send a written submission to share your feedback.
Written submissions
Interested parties, including affected industry professionals, labour representatives, environmental NGOs, and climate experts are invited to make written submissions to CleanBCReview@gov.bc.ca before July 18 at 4 pm.
First Nations rights and title holders, Indigenous organizations, and local governments are invited to make written submissions to CleanBCReview@gov.bc.ca before August 1 at 4 pm.
Your submission should address the questions listed below and be a maximum of 2,500 words. Submissions will not be posted publicly, but please indicate in your submission if the whole or parts include sensitive or confidential information. All submissions will be read and considered as part of the CleanBC Review.
Questions to guide your submissions:
- With respect to CleanBC’s policities—inclusive of legislation, regulation and government direction—that directly reduces or enables emission reductions:
- What is working well?
- What are the challenges and/or areas for improvement?
- What gaps exist, and how could they best be filled?
- With respect to CleanBC’s programs and other government spending that directly reduces or enables emission reductions:
- What is working well?
- What are the challenges and/or areas for improvement?
- What gaps exist, and how could they best be filled?
- Are there different ways to fund CleanBC programs beyond government grants, rebates, and incentives? Are there examples from other jurisdictions that could be applied in B.C.?
- With respect to the role of B.C.’s electricity and gas utilities in CleanBC and the B.C. Utilities Commission as their regulator:
- What is working well?
- What are the challenges and/or areas for improvement?
- What gaps exist, and how could they best be filled?
- Are there factors (e.g. workforce, supply chains, permitting, capital, cost effectiveness) that are currently unable to support the adoption of emissions-reducing technologies and services encouraged or required by CleanBC? If so, please describe the challenge and provide suggestions for how it can be addressed.
- Are there other barriers that have hindered the effectiveness of CleanBC policies and programs?
- How could CleanBC’s policies and programs be better aligned or integrated with other provincial priorities? These include (but are not limited to) improving affordability, enhancing economic competitiveness, protecting health, and ensuring energy security.
- Are there other innovative and effective approaches—including those that account for or align/integrate with other priorities—from other jurisdictions that B.C. should consider adopting?
- With regards to B.C.’s approach to establishing targets (2025, 2030, 2040 and 2050; and sectoral targets), public reporting and accountability:
- What is working well?
- What are the challenges and/or areas for improvement?
- What gaps exist, and how could they best be filled?
- Are there other potential indicators of progress (e.g. investment, behavioural change, energy production and use, deployment of key technologies etc.) that should be considered for tracking and reporting?
Submissions must meet the following criteria:
- Does not contain profanity or content that is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable)
- Does not appear to, or actually infringe upon, the copyright, trademark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party
- Does not contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content
- Does not advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain
- Does not provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content
- Does not make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations
- Does not appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign
- Is not far off-topic
Collection Notice: The information you provide will be collected to inform the CleanBC Review. If you have questions about the collection of this information, please contact: Senior Director, Citizen Engagement, CitizenEngagement@gov.bc.ca. This information is being collected by the Ministry of Citizens’ Services on behalf of the Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions and the independent CleanBC Review panel under the authority of section 26(c) and 26(e) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (“FOIPPA”). Please do not include any personally identifiable information about yourself or others in your responses.
How your contribution makes a difference
Your ideas will inform the panel’s recommendations for CleanBC and climate action in B.C. The panel members will analyze the survey responses and written submissions to develop recommendations for a final report.
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