The ascendance of Carney as a climate prime minister who didn’t talk about climate is all the more striking when considered alongside last year’s election in Mexico of Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist who also avoided talking about the issue in her campaign.

As the wife of Canada’s newly elected prime minister Mark Carney, she is bringing her own gravitas to the role of the country’s first lady. A global climate and energy policy authority, she has championed clean energy,