Environment committee   through all of the diagrams in detail, but I urge you more to listen to what I'm going to say. I think it's important for you all to understand what the IPCC is--that's the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change--and how it does its work. The IPCC was set up twenty years ago

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, Your Excellencies. I appreciate your being here. As you know, the committee has been looking at a private member's bill, Bill C-311, but your comments today are focused more on the general issue of climate change and the negotiations for a new

Environment committee  . Copenhagen is a rare opportunity for global action. As we all know, it has been 12 years since the Kyoto Protocol was agreed upon. With world emissions still rising steadily, waiting any longer to act will be too late to prevent dangerous climate change. We're just weeks away from

Environment committee  You talked quite eloquently about the impact of climate change on your way of life and about the loss of biodiversity. But I would like to talk about the impact of climate change in the sense of the thawing permafrost around your infrastructures. We know that the permafrost

Environment committee   have an obligation to do that. This time, the situation is different, we are talking about climate change in terms of adaptation to the impacts. We said there was no federal strategy, no federal plan. In addition, Mr. Keenan said that in 2007, the government was supposed to prepare

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Allow me to thank you and the other members of this committee for the opportunity to speak on this issue, the Kyoto Protocol and Canada's position and profile within the international climate change community. First allow me to directly address

Environment committee   is serious about tackling climate change and about doing it in practical ways, in terms of clean water, clean land, clean air. It's been in our budgets, it's gained significantly in the budget 2008. For my province, there is a big impact in terms of what we can do now by way of carbon

Environment committee  , hydrologists, and cryospheric scientists throughout Canada, and indeed we have members internationally as well. We represent Canadian scientists carrying out research on the atmosphere, the oceans, and related environmental issues, including, of course, climate change. We have more than 800

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I appreciate the opportunity to be able to come and discuss this topic today. I've been working on climate change with CAPP since 1988. I think some of you remember the issue tables process, which was the huge process that got us launched. We've been

Environment committee  , climate change, and global warming. Hydro power has over 120 years of history in Canada. We are pioneers and world leaders in this form of energy and our future is even more promising than our past. I'd like to provide you with a perspective on Bill C-469 from a clean and renewable

Environment committee   ambitious and creative about the kinds of policies that can make a real difference. The latest initiative of my council to address the climate change issue was the creation last year of our task force on environmental leadership, which I co-chair along with Richard Evans, the chief

Environment committee   and were negotiators in various sessions. Thank you for the invitation to come and report to you on aspects of the climate change conference in Bali in the first half of December. The minister was attending the high-level segment of that conference, and my colleagues and others were

Environment committee   in the U.S. vis-à-vis climate change and developing our own climate change policy here with a view to theirs. Here in Canada, there's nothing wrong with looking at what's happened in the U.S., and they have a strong tradition of using litigation to help generate societally beneficial

Environment committee   and Materials Research Group in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. In a recent C.D. Howe report, he wrote that the previous climate change plan, project green, the Liberal answer to meeting the Kyoto short-term target, would

Environment committee   toward the prevention of dangerous climate change, which is the ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which has been ratified by almost every country in the world. A little over two years ago, the Pembina Institute and the David Suzuki