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SC Governor Announces Climate Change Stockholders Conference

-- John -- 01/23/2007

In his State of the State Address last week, South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford called for a climate change stakeholders conference to address ways to mitigate the impact of hurricanes on South Carolina's coast.  While the CVSC endorses efforts to improve building and zoning regulations to mitigate the impact of hurricanes, South Carolina also needs a comprehensive plan to address global warming.  This includes not only supporting statewide initiatives to promote renewable energy sources, but also reducing carbon dioxide pollution.  In his remarks the Governor offered that we need to think of ourselves "as a country rather than a state" because our competition comes less now from North Carolina or Georgia but the emerging economies of places like China and India.  It is worth noting that if South Carolina were a country, we'd be the 38th largest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world.  So whatever is happening internationally or on a federal level, global warming should be one of South Carolina's top "domestic" issues.