Sierra Club BC: BC government’s dismantling of Climate Action Secretariat is a major step backward
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Sierra Club BC: BC government’s dismantling of Climate Action Secretariat is a major step backward
March 26, 2026
According to an article published yesterday in The Tyee, B.C. has quietly dismantled its Climate Action Secretariat, the agency that produced and implemented climate policy across government ministries.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sierra Club BC Senior Policy & Science Advisor Jens Wieting offers the following statement:
“The provincial government’s quiet dismantling of B.C.’s Climate Action Secretariat—with some staff reassigned to support new fossil fuel infrastructure—is irresponsible to the people of B.C. It erodes our government’s ability to work across ministries on climate solutions that improve our everyday lives, from affordable clean energy to heat pumps and EV infrastructure at a time when gas prices are spiking and climate emergencies are increasing.
“The province received the CleanBC Review in 2025, and B.C.’s own climate accountability legislation requires government to meet its targets. Instead of implementing the Review’s recommendations—which were designed to get B.C. back on track—the government is weakening its capacity to develop and enforce climate policy.
“What we are seeing right now from this BC NDP government is unprecedented and dangerous: cancelling climate policies without replacing them, and dismantling the very capacity needed to design and implement solutions. This is happening just as climate impacts reach new extremes, and just as clean technologies become more available and affordable than ever. It is an unprecedented level of irresponsibility.
“The B.C. government often claims it is taking an ‘elbows up’ stance in response to the U.S. administration’s threats. But in fact, it is taking a similar destructive path on climate: sacrificing the health and prosperity of present and future generations by ignoring the science and clear economic signals that a better future will be built on clean energy, not fossil fuels.”
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Background
WMO State of the Global Climate 2025
The World Meteorological Organization’s new State of the Global Climate 2025 report, which was released this week, confirms that 2015–2025 were the hottest 11 years ever recorded, with 2025 ranking as the second or third hottest year at about 1.43°C above pre-industrial levels. Extreme weather intensified worldwide; oceans absorbed record amounts of heat, and sea ice and glaciers continued to shrink. The report warns that Earth’s energy imbalance is now the highest in the 65-year record, underscoring that the planet is being pushed further out of equilibrium, and that urgent, strengthened climate action is needed. Learn more here.
Media contacts
Jens Wieting, Senior Policy and Science Advisor | Sierra Club BC
jens@sierraclub.bc.ca