Youth climate advocate running with Greens in Coldstream and area riding

A youth advocate and climate organizer is running to represent a local riding in the upcoming provincial election.

Carter Mochinski will represent the BC Green Party on the ballot in the Kelowna-Lake Country-Coldstream riding.

In a release, Mochinski said he is passionate about climate action, reducing inequality, improving education and making sure young people have a meaningful voice in society, and he wants to bring this knowledge and experience to the legislature.

“[I] represented Canada as a delegate at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP30 in Brazil, where [I] advocated for climate education and spoke about the impacts of climate change on young people. [I’ve] also worked with the BC Parks Foundation and independently to support stronger connections between nature, climate education and the provincial curriculum,” Mochinksi’s release stated.