OTTAWA—Mark Carney’s government has sidelined its independent climate advisory body and is putting Canada’s climate targets at risk, charged two members of the group who resigned this week in frustration.

Simon Donner, a UBC professor who was Net-Zero Advisory Body’s (NZAB) co-chair, was the first to resign late on Wednesday, saying he was not interested in providing advice that was being entirely ignored.

“I was comfortable chairing an appointed body whose advice is considered but ultimately rejected — after all, no one elected us. I was not comfortable with the process becoming neglected or performative, and it had begun to feel that way to me,” he said in a post online. “I grew tired of fighting a system that was increasingly not working, or listening.”

Then on Thursday, Catherine Ab

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