Environment committee  . They do seem to have a great deal of enthusiasm about collecting my premium though. I'd be interested in any observations you have with respect to the insurance industry and its recognition of the impacts of climate change on the industry.

Environment committee   with the Insurance Bureau of Canada and individual insurance companies such as Intact Insurance. The industry of course has extensive and detailed data on climate impact. To quote from an article in the Financial Post from November 2011: “What is causing it [climate change] is not our area

Environment committee   constituents, if you will, to the kids who are members, is scientifically based. We've had situations before where a company in the energy sector is supporting our program and then the school program that year is primarily about climate change and the importance of reducing our impact

Environment committee   environmental issues, whether it be climate change, pesticides, or deforestation, but we don't engage them in any kind of advocacy activities. That's why we're able to take donations and funding from a variety of sources. Like Terri said, as long as the relationship is mutually beneficial

Environment committee  That is a very good idea. The federal government has an enormous number of buildings, enormous infrastructure. It could as you said be one of the first users. It could lead by example by adopting this type of technology, which is really focused on adapting to climate change. I

Environment committee   and entrepreneurs are made more aware of these materials that are particularly adapted to climate change, since they contribute to reducing greenhouse gases? Do you think the federal government could do something in that respect?

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  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

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