Environment committee  , who is the chief negotiator for the climate change negotiations office, Department of the Environment. We also have, from the Department of Natural Resources, Carol Buckley, who is the director general in the office of energy efficiency. Joining us from the Department of Health

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I think whenever we talk about the severity of the problem of climate change and the impact of climate change, we're really preaching to the converted. I think everyone at this table understands that it's a real problem and that it's having ravaging

Environment committee   to the chapter that, as I understand, you led yourself, which is the impact of climate change on the prairies. I would like to get your impression of some things that have occurred in Alberta only this past summer. The Agricultural Financial Services Corporation, which is the agency

Environment committee  I'd like to say that if you think responding to climate change is costly, try the alternative. Try doing nothing and discover what the cost will be like. I'm glad you mentioned the work of Justine Klaver-Kibria. We had her write a chapter for a book on climate change in western

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Bigras. Please allow me to respond in English. The climate skeptics, as I like to call them, have been remarkably effective in delaying action on climate change for almost 20 years. The tactic they have used is to emphasize uncertainty. Unfortunately, most

Environment committee   products of the IPCC are sets of comprehensive reports, issued roughly every six years, on the science of climate change, impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, and the mitigation of climate change, together with a synthesis report. The process is one that engages governments

Environment committee  . I have four points. First, on the international scene—I know you discussed this last week—I have had the privilege over the last ten years of following international negotiations on climate change. I attended the first Conference of the Parties in Berlin in 1995. I was also

Environment committee   rather depressing. I noticed that half of your brief deals with adapting to climate change rather than on ways to reduce greenhouse gases. It is as if you had thrown in the towel with regard to greenhouse gases. Let met quote from your brief: It is clear that, regardless of what

Environment committee   on conservation, education, leadership development, capacity building, and social sustainability. I have worked on climate change since 1990, attending my first international negotiation on climate change in 1991 in the lead-up to the Rio Summit in 1992, where the UN Framework Convention

Environment committee   doubt, the principal policy decision of the government in this climate change area. Our involvement in climate change obviously goes beyond that into other areas of the department, in terms of the science. I think in these areas it is difficult to draw precise boundaries around

Environment committee   Chicoutimi. I've been interested in climate change since 1979. My first research interest was fish, but as acid rain destroyed the fish, I developed an interest in the causes of acid rain and, from the causes of acid rain, in air pollution in general and climate change in particular. I

Environment committee  ...including their commitment to participate in the UN Convention on Climate Change conference in December 2007 in Indonesia, with a view to achieving a comprehensive agreement to succeed the Kyoto Protocol when it expires in 2012. The G8 recognized in the clearest terms

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Commissioner, I thank you and your team for coming. The Prime Minister recently said, shortly before your report was published, that climate change should be taken with a grain of salt. He added that if we are unable to predict the temperatures

Environment committee  . The subject of climate change, Minister, has never been more important, and Canadians have very high expectations. To be frank, Minister, your government's performance on this file has been, objectively, terribly disappointing. Internationally, last year our climate change negotiators were

Environment committee   sovereignty in the Arctic. This satellite is being called upon to play a fundamental role in the fight against climate change; it is important technology that will enable us to understand the state of climatic changes within the framework of a climate change adaptation policy, particularly