Canada has a global impact in the fight against climate change. Whether leading the way on smart market mechanisms like pollution pricing, preserving intact nature and carbon sinks of global significance, pioneering new green technologies and decarbonizing traditional energy sources or championing multilateral cooperation, Canada continues to provide international leadership to address and adapt to climate change. Canada's safety, security and prosperity depend on taking ambitious, coordinated action at home and abroad.
Today, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, announced that Catherine Stewart has been appointed Canada's new Ambassador for Climate Change.
Ms. Stewart, who previously served as Canada's chief negotiator on climate change, will advise both the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Foreign Affairs on how Canada can best continue advancing its climate change priorities on the world stage. With over eight years of international experience in environment and climate change, including most recently as Assistant Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada's International Affairs Branch, Ms. Stewart is uniquely qualified to work closely with Canadian missions abroad to advance the Government of Canada's environmental agenda on the world stage. She will help shepherd Canada's ongoing work on international climate finance, promote the country's clean technology sector to global investors and reinforce the growing global consensus on the importance of protecting nature and tackling climate change together.
With both the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27) in Egypt this November and the COP15 UN global biodiversity conference scheduled for December in Montreal, Canada's Ambassador for Climate Change is a critical position in this pivotal decade of climate action.
Ms. Stewart succeeds Patricia Fuller, who served as Canada's Ambassador for Climate Change and helped raise Canada's climate action profile internationally.
