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Environment committee We don't really know very much about the cost of adaptation. It hasn't been studied or assessed very much. Economists have been singularly uninterested in adaptation, compared with mitigation. That's been the flavour of the whole debate for 15 years now. One thing is clear. If
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee It's difficult to say. Part of the problem is that the list of potential adaptation measures is, frankly, enormous. Perhaps it's best not to do that in a very top-down sort of way: to facilitate, to encourage, and to enable, and where the poorest and most vulnerable sectors of th
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee It speaks for itself.
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee I don't think we know the answer to that question. Earlier on, Mr. Godfrey asked something about recalibrating. Let me put a hypothesis on the table. Suppose we say that by some date hopefully in the near future, we would simply stabilize our emissions—not reduce them, but stabil
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee We tend to assume that there is a lot of room for spontaneous adaptation. Hopefully the private sector and communities habituated to looking for their own self-interest will see the opportunities, as well as the dangers, and respond accordingly. A role for government in this is
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee Yes. When I said there are only two, I am speaking actually in terms of the language of the climate framework convention, and that's what they use. I agree there are many different horses to ride, and I think you may be right, and I hope you are right about the accelerating or ne
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee Canada's targets, which we agreed to under Kyoto when we signed and ratified it, were a bit of guesswork. They were not very thoroughly researched and understood. I don't think we really understood what we were committing ourselves to.
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee No, we can't meet them.
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee Do we have all the technology we need to achieve that? No. Can we develop it? Yes. Will it take us some time to develop it? Yes. Can we sooner or later wean ourselves off fossil fuel or a carbon emission economy? Yes, it will take time.
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee Half a century.
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee Yes. Mr. Godfrey, I was interested in the phrase that you used, “recalibrate the targets”. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. It seems to me that thinking into the future about the use of targets, how those are going to be calibrated or recalibrated is going to depend ver
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton
Environment committee Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to speak to this committee. I congratulate the sponsor for introducing a bill that gives us an opportunity to think about climate change and the Kyoto Protocol in a particularly focused way. I want t
November 21st, 2006Committee meeting
Dr. Ian Burton