Emissions Trading And Climate Change Bulletin - Western Climate Initiative

The Western Climate Initiative ("WCI") is a multijurisdictional voluntary collaboration launched in February 2007 to develop regional strategies to address climate change. WCI partners include Arizona, California, Montana, Oregon, Utah, New Mexico, Washington, with Manitoba, British Columbia¹, Quebec and Ontario (the "Partner(s)"), and Saskatchewan, Alaska, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, Wyoming, Baja California, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, and Tamaulipas as observers. WCI goals include setting regional emissions reduction goals, developing a registry to track and manage emission reductions and offset credits and designing a multi-jurisdictional market-based cap and trade system.