{"id":43973,"date":"2021-05-10T12:34:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/?p=43973"},"modified":"2021-05-10T12:37:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:37:17","slug":"tar-sands-executive-named-canadian-climate-champion-ahead-cop26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/05\/10\/tar-sands-executive-named-canadian-climate-champion-ahead-cop26\/","title":{"rendered":"Tar sands executive named as Canadian &#8216;climate champion&#8217; ahead of Cop26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An executive of one of Canada&#8217;s largest oil companies has been named a &#8220;climate champion&#8221; by the UK government to mark six months to the Cop26 climate talks in November.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/26-canadian-climate-champions-announced-ahead-of-cop26-in-uk-and-canada-live-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> published on the UK government\u2019s website said 26 \u201cCanadian climate champions\u201d had been identified \u201cas exceptional individuals actively working to move Canada to net zero emissions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;champions&#8221; were selected by Canada Climate Law Initiative (CCLI), a research initiative based out of the University of British Columbia, with input from the British High Commission in Ottawa. The list was revealed during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y5nwOjc4sEQ&amp;ab_channel=CanadaClimateLawInitiative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a livestream event<\/a> co-hosted by CCLI and the British High Commission last week six months ahead of the start of the climate talks in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>Martha Hall Findlay, chief sustainability officer at Suncor, a company which produces crude oil from tar sands, made the list of people awarded with the title.<\/p>\n<p>Suncor is one of Canada&#8217;s largest integrated energy companies and is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2020\/11\/30\/2136960\/0\/en\/Suncor-Energy-announces-2021-production-outlook-and-capital-allocation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expanding its oil production<\/a>. The company has pledged to reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suncor.com\/en-ca\/sustainability\/ghg-goal#:~:text=We%20will%20measure%20our%20progress,products%20by%2030%25%20by%202030.&amp;text=This%20means%20finding%20new%20ways,while%20minimizing%20our%20carbon%20footprint.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">emission intensity of its oil production by 30% by 2030<\/a> but made no commitment to cut its emissions in absolute terms.<\/p>\n<p>Suncor CEO Mark Little is a governor on the board of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), which has repeatedly opposed climate policy and <a href=\"https:\/\/influencemap.org\/influencer\/Canadian-Association-of-Petroleum-Producers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lobbied<\/a> to weaken Canada\u2019s carbon tax on the oil sector.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/05\/07\/california-biggest-producer-planning-go-beyond-oil\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>California<\/strong> is the biggest producer in the world planning to go beyond oil<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAppointing oil company executives and bank executives heavily invested in oil and gas as climate champions is like appointing the tobacco industry to regulate cigarette advertising,\u201d Tzeporah Berman, chair of the Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty campaign and the international programme director at Stand.Earth, told Climate Home News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmissions from the production of oil and fracked gas are now the fastest and largest growing source of emissions in Canada. It\u2019s too late to just talk about carbon storage and emissions intensity reductions,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada wants to be a climate leader and is making some headway but until the Trudeau government acknowledges the need to wind down oil and gas production growing emissions will cancel out all our progress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian government was not involved in the initiative and there are no plans for the 26 \u201cchampions\u201d to play a formal role at Cop26.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the UK\u2019s foreign commonwealth and development office told Climate Home the event was \u201cpart of the UK\u2019s work to drive forward leadership on climate change, ahead of the Cop26 summit\u201d. The UK&#8217;s Cop26 team did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/subscribe\/\"><strong>Get climate news in your inbox:<\/strong>\u00a0Subscribe to our weekly or daily newsletter<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Jesse Bragg, spokesperson for campaign group Corporate Accountability, told Climate Home that any business that promises alignment with the Paris Agreement but still plans to extract fossil fuels into the future &#8220;is not a climate champion&#8221; but &#8220;an obstacle to progress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, the only way to truly ensure the UN talks are set up for success is to completely firewall the talks from the fossil fuel industry, not roll out the red carpet for them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Chort, vice president for corporate citizenship and sustainability at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), was another controversial choice of &#8220;champion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>RBC has financed fossil fuels projects to the tune of $160billion between 2016 and 2020, including more than $2bn for coal projects \u2013 the fifth largest fossil fuel funder in the world and the largest in Canada, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ran.org\/bankingonclimatechaos2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a report by a coalition of NGOs<\/a> published in March.<\/p>\n<p>The findings led climate activists in Canada to <a href=\"https:\/\/rbcrevealed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">put pressure on RBC<\/a> to move away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the bank <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbc.com\/newsroom\/news\/2021\/20210225-sustainable-financing.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pledged<\/a> to reach net zero emissions by 2050 and to mobilise $500bn in sustainable finance by 2025.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatechangenews.com\/2021\/05\/07\/asian-development-bank-plans-exit-coal-finance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Asian Development Bank<\/strong> plans exit from coal finance<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other people named as champions include Canada\u2019s infrastructure minister and former environment minister Catherine McKenna, who launched the Powering Past Coal Alliance with former UK minister Claire O\u2019Neill.<\/p>\n<p>Environmentalist broadcaster David Suzuki and indigenous climate justice advocate Melina Laboucan-Massimo also made the list.<\/p>\n<p>Cat Abreu, executive director of Climate Action Network Canada, told Climate Home that while there were some \u201ctrue champions\u201d on the list, \u201cthe criteria for what constitutes a \u2018champion\u2019 is quite unclear\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears that this list was named with the exclusive input of the CCLI, which is a nascent academic group focused on corporate responsibility that has so far not engaged Canada\u2019s broad climate movement,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Suncor&#8217;s chief sustainability officer is one of 26 people praised for moving Canada towards net zero emissions, despite the oil company expanding production","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":43983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4264,598],"tags":[124,4694,646],"coauthors":[4267],"class_list":["post-43973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cop26","category-fossil-fuels","tag-canada","tag-suncor","tag-tar-sands","type-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tar sands executive named as Canadian &#039;climate champion&#039; 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