"Alberta Environment Minister Shannon Phillips says a globally credible climate policy is important to the province's future, and now is the time to take action.

'There is a great appetite for action on climate change in our province, and the days of denial are over,' Phillips said in a keynote address at a climate summit in Edmonton hosted by the Pembina Institute.

Phillips, appointed to the cabinet of NDP Premier Rachel Notley in May, is currently overseeing the development of a climate change policy to take to the United Nations Climate Change conference in Paris this fall.

She noted that Alberta creates 37 per cent of all greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. That number is forecast to increase to 39 per cent by 2020."

CBC News had the story September 9, 2015. [2]