Individual actions, while important, are not enough to reduce our emissions sufficiently to prevent runaway climate change.

Governments must put a price on carbon, and that price needs to be increased anually until our emissions meet a scientifically determined level.

There are a number of ways that we can do this. Collectively they are known as Carbon Pricing.

The main methods are:

Cap and Trade with Offsets

http://www.millionlettermarch.org/cap-and-trade/

Carbon Tax

Fee and Dividend

Cap and Dividend

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has a great slideshow and report on BC's carbon price.