Environment committee   we're doing is cutting edge and actually similar to what you described, Mr. Zilberbrant, such as climate change adaptation to prevent flooding and to protect our streams and rivers. When a business gets involved in one of our programs as a participant or a delivery partner, they're

Environment committee   at again and have a piece of the funding separated to have not only the commercialization of tech but also the climate change benefits, then groups like the members in our network would have a much stronger chance of being successful more often in programs like that. To the earlier

Environment committee   that and having the climate change or sustainability-related impact be a criterion would allow for a group like DSA to say they will have businesses setting targets to reduce their carbon impact. They will also increase their profitability and they will grow the low-carbon economy at the same

Environment committee   supportive the municipality is. What kind of climate change action plan do they have? What amount of funding have they put in? We see often that municipal leadership can very much spur on the private sector to be an active player. To be fair, across the country on sustainability so much

Environment committee   provincially through funding agencies like the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Through the provincial government we just recently announced that the Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change has provided an initial $100,000 to the CoLab network, which allows us, as CoLab

Environment committee   cost of climate change inaction and the NRTEE estimated that to grow to $5 billion a year by 2020, but at the same time, at the company level there's a business case. It's not only about saving money on their energy bills. It's about attracting employees who are making

Environment committee  I understand that. I'm sure you're aware of the statements of the Minister of Natural Resources casting doubt about climate change, the 2° Celsius. The World Economic Forum ranks climate change as the third biggest concern overall, and failure to adapt to climate change

Environment committee   these benefits at $2.1 million annually, and Peel Region at $22.7 million annually. Canada's urban forests face significant threats from invasive pest species such as the emerald ash borer and the mountain pine beetle, as well as climate change, which supports the expansion of invasive

Environment committee  I understand that, but, again, I want to go back to the simple point, to zero in on it, because our government is being criticized all the time on the climate change issue. You're basically saying if we did everything that the opposition demanded us to do, demanded

Environment committee  You have to take note of the concern that Canadians have about the climate change initiatives. Rather than dealing with the reporting requirements as having a huge drop-off—and I would say a $60-million drop-off is pretty serious and another $100-million drop-off here is another

Environment committee   are reflected on an annual basis, on renewals and so on. We are taking a leadership role on climate change. We've done more to address the issue of climate change than the previous government. I think that's evident in the work we are doing and the investments we are making in Environment

Environment committee  It is a massive number, and it is climbing. Over the last four years it has averaged about a billion dollars, and it's getting off the chart. If that is true, and the federal government is having to backstop climate change, we've gone from some sort of theoretical idea about

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I can speak to the initiatives of Environment Canada around the climate change adaptation initiatives that we administer. I can't speak to the Public Safety budget for disaster compensation to jurisdictions that are hit hard by natural disasters

Environment committee  In terms of mandates, I agree with that mandate. Climate change is the most important issue facing us today. I'd like to come back to follow up on the microbeads piece. Thank you.

Environment committee  All right. Thank you. I also want to turn to Mr. Martin on our participation in global efforts to negotiate a new international climate change agreement. I was hoping you could give us some sense of where we are at in that process, how Canada is participating in that process