Quebec pledges $2.7 billion to tackle climate change

MONTREAL - Quebec plans to spend $2.7 billion to tackle climate change by 2020.

In the new 2013-20 climate-change action plan, made public in Montreal on Sunday by Premier Jean Charest, Quebec will act on a variety of fronts to meet its goal of bringing greenhouse-gas emissions to 20 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.

...Quebec plans to spend two-thirds of the money on transportation measures, such as improving public transit, carpooling, taxi-sharing and active transportation like walking and cycling.

...Funding for the plan will come from revenues from a new carbon market, the government said.

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