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It’s time for Canada to step up its climate change efforts.
At least, that’s what a former UN secretary-general says. In a Hill Times op-ed on Dec. 9, Ban Ki-moon urged Canada to “demonstrate greater leadership in the collective effort to tackle climate change.”
Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, world leaders are facing pressure to make stronger environmental commitments as the costs of the climate crisis soar and scientists stress the need to wind down fossil fuel production across the globe, Carl Meyer reports.
For his part, Environment and Climate Change Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is promising an “updated climate plan” that will “exceed” Canada’s current 2030 carbon pollution reduction target, and he's set to make an announcement alongside the prime minister later today.
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