Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg is urging developing island countries to use the upcoming United Nations Security Council election as leverage to push Canada and Norway to step up their games on climate change. Canada is going up against Norway and Ireland for the two seats available in next week's election to the UN body. Norway and Canada both have economies heavily based on oil and gas. Ireland has very little fossil fuel production and last year committed to ending oil and gas exploration altogether. In their letter, Thunberg and the others say that Canada is nowhere close to hitting its Paris climate agreement targets.

Source: CBC News June 10, 2020 08:03 UTC