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The B.C. Green Party would restrict log exports, encourage innovation in value-added wood manufacturing and build consideration for climate change into the sustainable management of natural resources, leader Andrew Weaver said in unveiling his party’s latest platform plank.

The party’s “strategy to build resilience” in resource sectors is about making sure everyone benefits from both sustainable resource use and a healthy environment, Weaver said at an event at Thompson River University in Kamloops.

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“We need an economy that identifies the challenges and develops strategies to mitigate risk,” Weaver said, standing alongside Dan Hines, the Green candidate for Kamloops-North Thompson and spokesman on forestry.

The Greens’ strategy leans heavily on beefing up environmental monitoring and enforcement while promising to work with resource companies on strategies to build climate-risk management into resource planning to promote “long-term economic and environmental sustainability.”