Catherine McKenna

McKenna was the Chair of the United Nations’ High‐level Expert Group on the Net Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities. She is Canada’s former Minister of Environment and Climate Change from 2015 to 2019 and Minister of Infrastructure and Communities from 2019 to 2021. Ms. McKenna is a founder and principal of Climate and Nature Solutions and of Women Leading on Climate. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Centre on Global Energy Policy and Climate School.

Recent Articles

2024 Must Be the Year for Exponential Climate Action

Five steps to move the world forward on fighting climate change in 2024.

By Laurence Tubiana and Catherine McKenna

We Must Win the Race to Net Zero

The U.N.'s most recent progress assessment is unequivocal: The world is not on track.

By Catherine McKenna

Want Consumers to Make Smart Climate Choices? Stop Greenwashing

Too many climate pledges represent little more than empty slogans and hype. That has to change

By Catherine McKenna
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