Environment committee  -economic well-being due to the disasters around climate, rising temperatures and increased greenhouse gas emissions. First, water security is at the nexus of climate change and national security. The effects of climatic change are already seen through a higher frequency of hydro

Environment committee  The economic impact of the damage caused by the Conservatives' action or inaction on climate change could really slow down Canada's economic growth. That could cost as much as $25 billion a year by 2025. If we do nothing on climate change, as the Conservatives are proposing

Environment committee   our waterways. In addition, we must dispel the false perception that water can be contained, channelled and controlled. As you know, because of climate change, there is too much water in some places and not enough elsewhere. If we were smart and allowed waterways to flow freely

Environment committee   a sector to mitigate a lot of those other problems. The opportunities that exist in the agriculture sector are too many. Anything you do for the agriculture sector—anything you do to empower the farmers and anything you do to prepare them for climate change, other disasters and extreme

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I welcome our witnesses. I'm going to start with Mr. Madramootoo. Earlier, the representative of the IJC, an organization created by the UN, and you talked about climate change, which is having a huge impact. While more developed countries

Environment committee  Canada, in my view, should be a world leader in addressing the issues around climate change in agriculture. You're quite correct that the people in the developing world, in the arid and semi-arid regions where some of the poorest of the poor live, carry a very high burden

Environment committee   and disease stress. As climate change continues to impact surface water, groundwater is becoming increasingly important to agriculture and ecosystem productivity, yet initiatives currently proposed to address water resources in Canada ignore groundwater. To underscore the importance

Environment committee  . These recommendations draw on our 10 years of experience working to improve access to data in Canada. I'll start with community. Communities are an essential part of Canada's ability to adapt to freshwater issues and climate change. DataStream works with more than 150 community organizations

Environment committee  ? The municipalities in my riding recognize that failing to address climate change comes with a major financial cost. As I said earlier, water shortages, extreme climate events and harmful insects are raising concerns for farmers and for the resiliency of municipal infrastructures in my riding

Environment committee  . There are lots of environmental challenges, like climate change and lots of other things, but certainly complacency is top of the list.

Environment committee   in managing 70% of the global water use. These reductionist and often energy-centric policies, which ignore how investment in the water and agricultural sector benefit our fight against climate change, hunger, poor health, poverty and injustice, are doomed to fail and must be immediately

Environment committee  . That will have repercussions not only for Canada, but also for all of the Americas. As we saw last year, Canada must be ready to defend its lack of action when those things happen because it has not done enough to fight climate change. That is arguably a threat to national security. What

Environment committee  Thank you for that great question. Typically, what happens with all different types of scientific studies is that there's a component where indigenous science.... There are many different terms, but recently Environment and Climate Change Canada has an indigenous science

Environment committee   that are there to help in humanitarian ways, and without that we would not be able to help refugees or put people back on a course for a productive life in a different place. More importantly, we are there when there are drought crises and climate change impacts, and countries like Canada, as donors

Environment committee  —with respect to international development and how important it is that we ensure that global water security and food insecurity are not issues that persist. Particularly, because of climate change right now, we're seeing more frequent droughts, floods and extreme weather events, which