Western Climate Initiative

Western Climate Initiative, Inc.

Participating jurisdictions of the Western Climate Initiative
Formerly	Western Regional Climate Action Initiative
Company type	501(c)(3) organization
Founded	February 26, 2007; 17 years ago (2007-02-26) in Washington, D.C., United States (Reincorporated 2011)
Founders	Christine Gregoire Ted Kulongoski Janet Napolitano Bill Richardson Arnold Schwarzenegger
Headquarters	1107 Ninth Street, Suite 1070, Sacramento, California , United States
Area served	North America
Key people	Jason Hollett, Chair Liane Randolph, Vice-Chair
Members	California Quebec Nova Scotia Washington
Website	www.wci-inc.org

Western Climate Initiative, Inc. (WCI) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation which administers the shared emissions trading market between the American state of California and the Canadian province of Quebec as well as separately administering the individual emissions trading systems in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia and American state of Washington. It also provides administrative, technical and infrastructure services to support the implementation of cap-and-trade programs in other North American jurisdictions. The organization was originally founded in February 2007 by the governors of five western states with the goal of developing a multi-sector, market-based program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; it was incorporated in its current form in 2011.^[1]