With your help, we have recently celebrated some major victories on the issue of global warming.

• Sierra Club BC joined other groups calling on the BC government to allocate significant new resources for public transportation, as a way of motivating British Columbians to get out of their cars and embrace more climate-friendly modes of transport. BC’s transportation sector is responsible for almost 40 per cent of the province’s greenhouse gas emissions. In January 2007, our efforts met with success when the BC government announced it will allocate $14 billion for public transportation.
• Sierra Club BC’s campaign to set into law strong carbon emissions reduction targets for BC was won in November 2007, when the provincial government legislated some of North America’s most aggressive targets. BC is now legally bound to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 33% by 2020 and at least 80% by 2050. Sierra Club BC petitions carrying well over 1,000 signatures were delivered to Premier Gordon Campbell, and Sierra Club BC representatives spoke in favour of legislated targets at events, in the media and in meetings with government.
• Sierra Club BC was one of the first and most vocal opponents of two proposed coal-fired power plants in Princeton and Tumbler Ridge, which would have been B.C.'s first to feed into the public grid. Together, these plants would have released greenhouse gases equivalent to putting 300,000 more cars on B.C.'s roads and driving them for 40 years. British Columbians were quick to join the shouts of disapproval, generating thousands of petitions, letters and postcards, as well as significant media coverage. Our collective efforts were rewarded in February 2007 when the government announced that no coal-fired plants would be built without full carbon sequestration, a technology not yet commercially viable, thus effectively cancelling the power plants. 
• In 2006, Sierra Club BC brought home the potential impact of global warming on coastal communities when we released two flood maps of the Lower Mainland and Greater Victoria. Based on scientific models that demonstrated how much higher the sea level was the last time the Earth was 2 degrees warmer (6 m) and 5 degrees warmer (25 m), we used overlays of GoogleEarth to show what BC coastlines might look like if global warming continues unchecked. Along with a media campaign and range of user-friendly global warming materials with lifestyle and action tips, these maps helped position global warming as an urgent issue in the public mind. 
• As a key and founding partner in the GSX Concerned Citizens Coalition, in 2005 Sierra Club BC successfully challenged plans for a gas-fired power plant at Duke Point on Vancouver Island which would have increased B.C.’s greenhouse gas emissions. The Coalition compiled extensive evidence to refute the myth that a power shortfall could only be met by building power plants, and brought this evidence to the Utilities Commission’s review of the Duke Point plan and later to the B.C. Court of Appeal.