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Catherine McKenna
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🌱 CEO, Climate & Nature Solutions; Chair UN Net Zero.
🇨🇦Former Minister of Environment & Climate
🏃‍♀️Author, Run Like a Girl
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www.catherinemckenna.ca

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Big news! My book, #RunLikeaGirl, is launching in Canada & US on September 23. It’s about having the courage to run your own race-even when it’s hard. Trying to live up to the expectations of others is no way to live or make a difference. Let’s do this!🏃‍♀️💪 🏃‍♀️💪 🏃‍♀️💪 🏃‍♀️💪
#WomenLeadingonClimate
“Find creative solutions to tough challenges.” That’s what it takes to build a clean energy future.

Great chat with Ingrid Reumert from Orsted on the latest #WomenLeadingOnClimate.

💚 Listen, subscribe & share → linktr.ee/WLOC
December 5, 2025 at 12:18 AM
So grateful to the MaRS Discovery District team and the Women in Cleantech Network for such a powerful morning 💚 Being in a room full of women who are building climate solutions was incredible. Thanks for the space to talk leadership, risk, failure & getting back up again.
December 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The thing about online hate is that it goes offline & is dangerous. In my case, it would often start with clip of Conservative politician making a personal attack in Question Period, rage farming outlets would promote, bots & trolls pile on, algorithms amplify.
It needs to stop!
🇨🇦 Catherine McKenna joins us this week to chat about the state of hate online (esp. for women in politics) & her new book, Run Like a Girl 🏃‍♀️.

Get The AmberMac Show now on Spotify / wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/0Wam...

Cc @jeffmacarthur.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
Books you shouldn’t miss:
📘 Saving Us by @katharinehayhoe.com
🚀 Stellar by James Arbib and @tonyseba.bsky.social
🌞 Here Comes the Sun by @billmckibben.bsky.social
🏃‍♀️ Run Like a Girl by @cathmckenna.bsky.social
📊 Principles of Transition Finance by C. Robin Castelli
...and more.
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
At #MyRunLikeAGirl book launch in Victoria last week, I had a conversation with @ianmauro.bsky.social. Ian asked me tough but thoughtful questions - and I did my best to answer them.

Have a listen and let me know what you think.
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
If you raise your hand & say you’re committed to net zero, you need to do the work: short-term targets, a credible transition plan, real emissions going down, money going from fossil fuels to clean, no new investment in fossil fuel infrastructure. See our UN Expert Group “Integrity Matters” report.
Integrity Matters: Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities | United Nations
The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on 31 March 2022, established a High-Level Expert Group on the Net-Zero Emissions Commitments of Non-State Entities to develop stronge...
www.un.org
November 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
If you need hope on climate, check out our new #WomenLeadingonClate podcast episode where I talk with two awesome women who are using the law to get action on climate: Client Earth CEO @lauraclarkece.bsky.social & my pinky promise friend, @sophiamathur.bsky.social! 💪
Sophia was 10 when we made a pinky promise to protect the planet — and she’s more than lived up to it. Hear her story & @lauraclarkece.bsky.social of @clientearth.bsky.social on Women Leading On Climate podcast.

Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
November 27, 2025: PM Carney’s Alberta pipeline partnership, @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social's resignation, support for industries affected by tariffs www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf3U...

@rosiebarton.bsky.social @acoyne.bsky.social @chebert18.bsky.social @markusoff.bsky.social @althiaraj.bsky.social 🍁
At Issue | Carney’s Alberta pipeline partnership
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Whoa. It’s called “zoom” - quite a way to respond to the Coastal First Nations request for a meeting especially when he refused to meet them before the MOU that directly affects them was announced - while doing over 50 meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists.
HODGSON: It's called Zoom. I think that's what we're using.

COCHRANE: I understand. But I'm also not a Coastal First Nation Chief.
November 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
See CarbonTracker’s new report “Petro-Provinces at Risk”.

Energy transition puts at huge risk provincial revenues from oil & gas in 2030s:
- AB ⬇️ 85%
- BC ⬇️ 72%
- SK ⬇️ 78%

Oil & gas expansion is increasingly a “high-risk, low-reward strategy”.
Petro-Provinces at Risk - Carbon Tracker Initiative
How oil- and gas-dependent Canadian provinces face fiscal strain as the energy transition progresses  A number...
carbontracker.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Imagine the hole in Alberta’s budget when the price & demand for oil is in long-term decline in 2030s as a result of the energy transition and increased demand for clean energy. Not nostalgia for the past, it’s about winning the future. Just economics, folks.
Alberta faces $6.4-billion deficit as falling oil prices and trade troubles take toll
This year’s budget represents a massive multibillion-dollar swing from an $8.3-billion surplus last year
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Sophia was 10 when we made a pinky promise to protect the planet — and she’s more than lived up to it. Hear her story & @lauraclarkece.bsky.social of @clientearth.bsky.social on Women Leading On Climate podcast.

Listen, subscribe, share: linktr.ee/WLOC
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I worked with @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social starting when I was a new Minister working hard to tackle climate change & build an economy that positioned Canada to win the energy transition. He gets it. He has worked with integrity his entire career & will continue.
He is the best of politics. 🙏
November 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson

Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
This afternoon, I informed the Prime Minister of my decision to resign as Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture, Minister responsible for Official Languages, Minister of Nature and Parks Canada, as well as his Lieutenant in Quebec.

You can find my full statement below.
November 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Working on climate is hard—but nights like Tuesday in @victoria.ca remind me why we keep going.

Huge thanks to @uvic.ca, @picscanada.bsky.social, and everyone who came out for climate and your coastal waters. 💚🌊
November 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
What an incredible day in Vancouver — from an energizing afternoon with students UBC to an evening with 400+ people from business, finance, policy, philanthropy, health care and infrastructure.

Huge thanks to @kookai.bsky.social for hosting a powerful “Run Like a Girl” conversation.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Wonderful day of #RunLikeAGirl events with UBC Sauder School on Monday - met hundreds of students & Vancouverites who care about climate, politics & making change! Many women asked me what gives me hope. The honest answer: That I’m not alone but in solidarity with so many amazing women! 💪
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Live at @uvic.ca tonight! Join the livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
November 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hey Canadians: This is what winning the future looks like! (Hint: it’s not doubling down on oil and gas!)

Great piece by @gmbutts.bsky.social, Rick Smith, Peter Nicholson.
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
What Premier isn’t????

I guess the climate crisis is over in Canada! Let’s the win the past & give up winning the cleaner, healthier, stronger future!
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
In Run Like a Girl I talk in detail about the attacks, harassment and threats I faced online and offline not because I need sympathy but because we need change. No woman in politics or media should have to endure targeted abuse just for doing her job and speaking up.

🔗 tinyurl.com/22jux727
November 25, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Join me tonight at @uvic.ca for a conversation of climate, connection, and fighting for change.

🕖 7:00–9:30 p.m. PST (doors 6:30)
📍 University of Victoria

🔗 Event details & tickets: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic
🎥 Livestream: tinyurl.com/RLAG-uvic-live
@picscanada.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It’s an interesting approach to provide clarity on a tanker ban while failing to meet with the Coastal First Nations despite repeated requests - the community that would be directly affected by any spill - while having dozens or more meetings with fossil fuel lobbyists, AB, Sask.
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Reposted by Catherine McKenna
Great to be in Vancouver today to talk to students at UBC & a sold out public event tonight about my new book #RunLikeAGirl! Lots to talk about from politics to climate action to running your own race! An important discussion at a critical time. Can’t wait! 🏃‍♀️🌎💪
November 24, 2025 at 1:12 PM