Meet the only northerner on Canada’s youth council for climate and the environment [Video]

A young person from Whitehorse will be on Canada’s Environment and Climate Change Youth Council for the next two years. 

Pearl Pique Carpina is the sole member from the northern territories among a dozen youth from across the country who will make up the second cohort of the council. They were named earlier this month.

The federal government says the council provides advice on issues about the environment, nature and climate that is used to inform its decision-making.

Carpina said a focus on the environment was instilled in her from a young age in the Philippines. She said growing up on a family rice farm along with all the farm animals is what started her connection to the land. 

She’s now a graduate of the northern environmental and conservation sciences program at Yukon University, and has had a chance to learn about the environment in places like Parliament Hill in …