Greta Thunberg Calls Out Canada On Climate Before UN Security Council Vote
Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is urging developing island nations to use the upcoming United Nations (UN) Security Council election as leverage to push Canada and Norway to step up their games on climate change.
She is the headline signatory on a letter to UN ambassadors of small island developing states, which says that Canada and Norway both give lip service to climate action but remain steadfast in their commitment to expand fossil fuel production and subsidizing oil companies.
In their letter, Thunberg and the others say that Canada is nowhere close to hitting its Paris climate agreement targets. They also say Canada is the second-biggest supplier of fossil fuel subsidies among the world’s wealthiest 20 countries and has opened up billions of dollars in loans to fossil fuel companies as part of its COVID-19 economic aid.