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Representatives from around the world are in Ottawa to negotiate a legally binding treaty to eliminate plastic pollution by 2040. But after a previous meeting went off the rails, pressure is now on delegates to make up for lost time in what promises to be one of the most important environmental weeks of the year.
Former environment and climate change minister Catherine McKenna told Canada’s National Observer it’s “completely bonkers” to come to a climate summit to push oil and gas extraction.
As the annual UN climate change negotiations creep closer, Quebec Premier François Legault says he is trying to convince Canada to abandon oil and gas, as a series of groundbreaking reports reveal huge fossil fuel expansion plans that must be cancelled if the world is to avoid catastrophic global warming.