Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Today it is a pleasure for me to table a motion that reads as follows:
It is proposed that the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, through its Chair, write to the Environment Minister to express the committee's desire to see him, on the occasion of the 13th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, make a commitment to ensure an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of 20% below 1990 levels by 2020, and accept Europe's invitation to cut emissions by 30% if the other developed countries also accept.
I am therefore tabling this motion because, in recent months, scientific evidence has been presented to the international community. First, the intergovernmental group—