Canadian Legislative Issues
Ontario’s Climate Change Strategy
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Minister of the Environment and Climate Change Glen Murray announced the province’s new Climate Change Strategy during the United Nations’ 21st Conference of the Parties in Paris. The new strategy consists in investing $20 million from the Ontario Green Investment Fund this year in order to install additional public charging stations for electric vehicles.
"Ontario’s new Green Investment Fund offers exciting opportunities to revolutionize how we live, work, move, and play as we fight climate change. This initial investment is just the start of many more bold steps we’ll be taking to promote electric cars as a sustainable transportation choice and to reduce greenhouse gas pollution in other sectors," declared Murray.
The province wants to create an extensive network of fast-charging electric vehicle stations across the province in strategic locations in order to ensure a low-carbon future over the next few years. Moreover, the province is also looking at a low and zero-emission policy in reaching Ontario's greenhouse gas pollution reduction target of 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050.
In sum, Ontario is making a shift towards electric vehicles and it could have a potential impact on NAFA members and all fleet managers alike.
