Environment committee  I think you may be referring to the arrangement related to UNESCO. In the terms of the Framework Convention on Climate Change, Canada is the only party to the convention and it is only the Government of Canada that speaks on behalf of Canada in that body. That said, we do have

Environment committee  To the last segment of my question, is an integrated North American approach to tackling climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions important for Canada, and why?

Environment committee  There's an important discussion going on in the negotiations about developing country action. The fact is that 97% of future growth in global emissions will come from developing countries. So we cannot have a successful global climate change regime without the broad

Environment committee  There are 41 Annex I members under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. There are 37 countries and the European Community listed in Annex B of the Kyoto Protocol.

Environment committee  We have ongoing dialogues with those countries. I don't know the full details of what the United States has done with its other partners. We also have an important bilateral ongoing discussion on climate change and clean energy with the United States. All these actions

Environment committee  The importance of a global effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is growing. That cooperation has been at the heart of Canada's position all along. We believe it is important to get China, the United States, and India participating in a new international agreement on climate

Environment committee   have a North American approach to setting a target to tackle climate change. They acknowledged that it would be a stronger position, as we go into the negotiations in Copenhagen in December, to take a North American approach as we are doing now with the United States, their target

Environment committee  As I mentioned, the government's views and its policies on climate change are informed by the work of the IPCC and the fourth assessment report. We fully accepted and supported the findings of the fourth assessment report, and that informs our policies and our work.

Environment committee  Well, I'm not a scientist, but we are informed fundamentally in the negotiations by the work of the IPCC, and that, I think, is broadly reflected in governments' broad recognition that holding temperature increases to below 2 degrees is consistent with avoiding dangerous climate

Environment committee  In terms of setting a future plan to combat climate change, could a variable geometry and variable speed plan work in Canada? In other words, could one emissions target level be set for one industry—in this case the oil industry, a national concern— and another for other sectors

Environment committee  And maybe through you, Mr. Chair, how long will it take to obtain that? If it's available today, a full climate change plan for Canada would be very helpful.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. First of all, I want to thank the witnesses for enlightening us about Bill C-311 and the ongoing international negotiations on climate change. I am somewhat disappointed with your presentation and with your testimony. At best, you tend to blow hot

Environment committee   responsibility in preventing dangerous climate change. Can I have someone move that? Thank you, Mr. Warawa. (Motion agreed to) We circulated the proposed schedule that we have so far for the witnesses who have confirmed. It is there for your information. We'll take a look at this again

Environment committee  My feeling is that it is not ambitious enough but has been sufficient to change the tone of the negotiations on the Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Environment committee  , that if we are going to set this country on a path to addressing climate change, then the first place to start is by setting an ambitious goal, an ambitious target, a target that will galvanize Canadians as individuals, Canadian industry, and Canadian governments at all levels.