A 25-year-old climate activist, who campaigned on increasing taxes for the wealthiest and putting a stop to fossil-fuel extraction, has been voted in as leader of the B.C. Greens in a decisive victory.

Emily Lowan, who doesn’t have a seat in the legislature, faces a number of challenges ahead, including navigating a byelection sometime in the future, working with two rookie Green MLAs — Jeremy Valeriote of West Vancouver-Sea to Sky and Rob Botterell of Saanich North — and boosting the party’s clout.

Lowan said during the campaign that she would consider ripping up the co-operation agreement formed in late 2024 between the Greens and the governing B.C. NDP — an accord in which the Greens provide support on certain confidence votes in exchange for action on some of their priorities, such a

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