Benoit Charette

About

Benoit Charette is Minister of the Environment, the Fight Against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks of Quebec (since October 18, 2018). MNA for Deux-Montagnes, elected in 2008 (originally as Parti Québécois MNA, joined the CAQ in 2017). Quebec's longest-serving Environment Minister. Has overseen Quebec's $2 billion cap-and-trade system (linked with California since 2014), the 2030 Green Economy Plan (Quebec's net-zero-by-2050 framework), the Quebec response to federal Clean Electricity Regulations, and the 2023 Bill 95 on agro-environmental risk reduction.