Environment committee  My concern with the equivalency agreements being discussed now is the absence of actual targets. In other words, we're having bilateral discussions in which there's no overall goal or target, which is something that the bill in front of you could actually rectify. If you have t

Environment committee  Maybe I can turn this to the solutions side. We do have Stern analysis; we have the national round table perspective, which was very much in line with Stern. In fact, there's not very much pain involved here. What we need to look at is the cost of inaction. Having a Canadian pers

Environment committee  I don't know, but I haven't canvassed everybody.

Environment committee  I haven't done an exact comparison, but Bill C-30 did have some small improvements on the energy efficiency side. We have been pursuing that very aggressively and would give more ambit to setting energy efficiency targets. It's not that many of those things could not be done now,

Environment committee  World Wildlife Fund has approximately 80,000 Canadians as members, and internationally we have approximately five million members.

Environment committee  We have probably 120 staff in Canada.

Environment committee  Well, about a year ago we specifically put out a notice regarding Bill C-288, which was probably before this very committee. I didn't appear. We did outreach on that, and 12,000 people signed a petition in favour of having targets entrenched in law.

Environment committee  We have really serious concerns with the government's climate change plan as formulated, mainly for some of the reasons I expressed here. It does not reflect the science as set out by the IPCC. When we've done the calculations and case studies, one of which I presented regardin

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair and committee members. Thank you for the invitation. My name is Julia Langer. I'm director of the climate change program at World Wildlife Fund Canada. World Wildlife Fund's mission is to build a future in which humans can live in harmony with nature. We wo