Canada is joining forces with the United Kingdom to push for a global crackdown on unabated coal-fired electricity.
Eliminating, or at least reducing, the world’s reliance on coal is a critical step in the Paris climate change accord’s efforts to prevent the planet from warming more than two degrees Celsius over with pre-industrial times.
Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is on a two-day trip to the U.K. and Ireland this week, pushing Canada as a global leader on climate change action.
On Thursday she will be in Ireland to be a panelist at a climate risk conference in Dublin and tour Ireland’s Marine Institute in Galway.
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