Environment committee  Colleagues, welcome to this meeting of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. This meeting has been called pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) on the study of Canada's position in advance of the United Nations Climate Change

Environment committee  COSEWIC did consider climate change and other activities in its assessment. They have a fairly rigorous criteria for determining what status they'll give to a species--special concern, versus threatened or endangered. And I'm sure Dr. Hutchings will be happy to explain

Environment committee  , apply to SARA. To go back, you mentioned polar bears and traditional aboriginal knowledge, and one of the weak points in traditional aboriginal knowledge, by definition, is the new impacts of climate change. For generations native elders could predict exactly which day or which week

Environment committee   of government in terms of taking action on climate change, and ultimately it's their responsibility. I can't honestly say from a scientific perspective whether the Kyoto targets can or cannot be achieved, but we'll never know unless we try. Certainly, the targets the government is currently

Environment committee   in the climate change debate for well over a decade, and we take the perspective that the natural gas delivery industry is part of the solution. By that, I mean three things. First, while our direct emissions from the gas delivery operations are relatively small, we are part of the so

Environment committee   on climate change or to listen to the people around you? You have to be able to understand not only the economic aspect, but also the environmental aspect of issues. At present, the economy is still the big predator. It is constantly preying on the environment. You are an economist

Environment committee  As I say, if I talk about going forward, I'm not sure exactly how things are going to unfold and what the deputy will think I'm most beneficial to work on. Up until now it has primarily been on the climate change file. I've been trying to understand what the issues are out

Environment committee   Commission. Also, I've been involved in various international organizations. In the 1990s, I spent time as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which produced the second assessment report. For a long time I was a member of the China Council, which is a group of seven

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll reiterate what I mentioned before. On its own, climate change is not something that you can deal with. It's an impact, if you like, based on a lot of other activities that we do. So in terms of how we organized our program activity architecture last

Environment committee   recall it being sold as a gift to seniors and students; I recall it being sold as an environmental policy. In terms of the $13 billion you're requesting for work on regulations on climate change, I think that's an admission that you missed your fall deadline to come out with climate

Environment committee  In terms of a policy of adapting to climate change, do you think that the lack of an automatic alert system is a significant failing? This may be more of a yellow light than a red light with respect to the effectiveness, timeliness or accuracy of severe weather warnings

Environment committee   on analysis from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, from the government's own analysis from a report from 2007 issued in 2008, climate change will increase the severity and frequency of severe weather episodes. Therefore, the onus on looking at preparing for that and adapting

Environment committee  . On page 23, paragraph 1.53, concerning agreements with industry, that the government did not carry out any verification of the reported results. On page 18, in paragraph 1.39, regarding the Clean Air and Climate Change Trust Fund, you tell us, “The little analysis it did undertake

Environment committee  . Yet, while severe weather events are becoming more frequent and severe due to climate change, the department is facing challenges and risks that threaten the robustness of its systems. We recommend that the department adopt a long-term strategy to guide its decisions. The report

Environment committee   assure you that many, including me, will be watching and hoping that the minister will live up to his words that he lauds the role of scientists in addressing climate change and respects their work. We hope the funding will be restored. Minister Prentice, two ministers back, reacted