Environment committee   generate momentum in this negotiating process to develop an environmentally effective post-2020 climate change agreement.

Environment committee  Thanks. Minister, many developing countries lack the economic resources necessary to invest in new technologies that would help them combat climate change. I was wondering if you could please tell us what Canada is doing to assist developing countries to invest in new green

Environment committee   climate change. I was wondering if you could please provide the committee with some of the domestic actions that have been taken.

Environment committee  Protecting or increasing the number of wetlands could have an impact on climate change, but that is not the solution we should adopt. We are headed in the wrong direction if we think that natural environments, both forests and wetlands, will reduce climate change. To really

Environment committee   dioxide, will be released into the atmosphere and will cause the kinds of climate change with which we are familiar. That is a little-known fact. However, many studies have noted this principle, but few have been conducted to monitor or confirm how much peat bog loss is due to climate

Environment committee  , with forestry ministers. I asked how we could say in any kind of way, shape, or form that we're managing the forest when we haven't met for three years. There are climate change issues, there are manufacturing issues, there are invasive species issues, and we were there for a day—in three

Environment committee  Right now the group that is dealing with flood and drought, climate change, and water security is scoping out what can be done in the future. I do know that flood and drought are key items that folks are interested in all across Canada. There is concern that things are going

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Miltenberger. Given that we are going to deal with committee business later, I would like to make the following motion now: That the Committee conduct a study on the impacts of climate change and resulting new resource development and transportation routes

Environment committee   is that it's very difficult to do meaningful work in that amount of time. The last meeting we had was the first time we had got agreement around the table to actually mention the words “climate change” in a press release. It's a kind of success; that's how we measure success. We're doing

Environment committee   are inextricably linked, not to mention that there is the dramatic impact of climate change and global warming. We're in year four of a record-breaking drought up here. We had an incredible fire season last year and we are anticipating another one. We burned an area bigger than Belgium last

Environment committee   contribute water quality data. In this region water in general is excellent, and as far as I know across Canada water is excellent. We take pride in that. I agree with the last comment that we need to ensure that happens into the future, and there are some challenges with climate change

Environment committee   as water lies in partnerships and collaborations with water partners, including those within our borders and those in neighbouring jurisdictions. To address concerns related to upstream development and climate change, we developed the Northern Voices, Northern Waters: NWT Water

Environment committee   changes been made? We're talking about risks, but are the observations well situated geographically? Of course, there are risks like climate change, in particular. Could you please tell us a little about how things have developed and whether you think it is satisfactory?

Environment committee   quality impairment. They include all of the factors that Ms. Gelfand mentioned earlier, such as run-off, agriculture, industrial activity of all kinds, population, waste water treatment plants, economic development, and climate change. We layer them onto a map and we come up

Environment committee  , climate change and scarce supplies of fresh water in certain parts of the country. In 2010, we examined Environment Canada's management of national programs to monitor water quality and quantity—some of the programs underlying the report being considered by this committee