I'm happy to go first.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for their opening remarks. I wanted to ask Ms. Joseph some questions. She talked about coal-fired electricity plants in India. We know that the world is burning more coal than ever, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. China burns more coal than all the rest of the world combined.
The International Energy Agency said about a decade ago that coal burning for electricity production had peaked. They obviously were way too early, because we saw a record high two years ago and a record high last year. On the data I've seen, it looks like 2024 will smash through all records in terms of coal consumption for the production of electricity.
We also know that a kilowatt-hour of electricity produced from natural gas has half the GHG emissions of a kilowatt-hour produced from coal.
Could you tell us a bit about your organization's view as to the importance of exporting LNG from Canada's west and east coasts so that we can displace more coal-fired electricity generation, which accounts for more than a fifth of all the world's GHG emissions?