Five days after Steven Guilbeault was appointed Canada's environment minister in October 2021, he headed to Scotland for the annual United Nations climate talks being held in Glasgow.
But Guilbeault, who says he prefers "trains to planes whenever possible," would only agree to fly as far as London. His team made the remaining 555 km of the journey by train, producing less than a sixth of the carbon dioxide than if they had flown.
In April, he published Canada's first national emissions reduction plan, the first to map out what needs to be done to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by 2030. That includes making a decision on how the government will cap emissions from oil and gas production, which will involve more political bickering with the government of Alberta.
The mega offshore project in Newfoundland and Labrador is expected to produce more than 300 million barrels of oil over its lifespan. Though Guilbeault said he hasn't lost friends over it, he has heard their loud disappointment over the decision — one he said he made with extreme reluctance. Most major Canadian climate activists insist it is an unproven technology and point out that it doesn't mitigate the emissions be produced when the fuels are used."You know, if you're really going to decarbonize by bringing all these 'gee whiz' technologies that no one else seems to think will work, then you'll put up your own money. Don't ask the public to pay for it," he said.
Twenty-six years later, in 2001, he and another Greenpeace activist scaled the CN Tower using steel maintenance cables to criticize Canada and the U.S. for not ratifying the Kyoto accord.
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