Carney is unwilling to expend any political capital to make the case for Canadian climate leadership

It’s time for Mark Carney to recapture that mojo that transformed him from a grey banker to an internationally renown climate champion. Not to burnish his own reputation, but to secure a better future for all of us. 
Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and U.S. President Donald Trump at the West Wing entrance of the White House on May 6, 2025.

OTTAWA—A decade ago, 196 nations came to together in Paris to ink a climate-change agreement aimed at limiting the increase in global temperatures to well below 2 C above pre-industrial levels.

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