Environment committee  To begin, I would like to say that I have been working in the field of climate change since 1999. I was not there when Canada's targets were set, but we heard Louise Comeau's testimony regarding the analysis which was carried out in the 1990s. So not only do we have the analysis

Environment committee  Mr. Godfrey, I think you may have taken liberties with some of the text in my presentation. I would disagree with some of your characterizations. We don't argue about the importance of climate change. We totally agree with the importance of climate change and the importance

Environment committee   emissions being put into the atmosphere now are going to have a growing impact over the next 20 to 30 years, so what we're experiencing in climate change right now has been impacted by greenhouse gas emissions growing over the last 20 to 30 years. Would you not agree with that? Where

Environment committee  --that there is much controversy surrounding the science around greenhouse gases, climate change effects, and human activities. It is on page 4. But then you urge us, in the spirit of despair, to get on with adaptation, because it's clear that no action will be enough to stop the effects of climate

Environment committee   very good projects abroad which we could invest in and which would significantly affect climate change. There is the issue of cost, which is evaluated at a maximum of $20 billion over four or five years. It's a question of political will: is our future and that of our children

Environment committee  With all due respect to Mr. Godfrey, I don't think we can isolate mitigation from adaptation. The degree of adaptation that will be necessary will depend entirely on the extent to which we're able to slow the rate of climate change. So we can't consider one without the other

Environment committee  The reason I ask is that when we're looking at questions of, say, the development of the tar sands in northern Alberta, the proposal to use your industry to transport natural gas to that development to then produce tar sand oil is, in a climate change analysis, a rather terrible

Environment committee   on. That's being driven today primarily by changes in provincial policy. I want to address, as our other witnesses have today, our thoughts on addressing climate change in a comprehensive way and how we would be an example of domestic action. It is our perspective, in terms of Kyoto—I'm

Environment committee   by production or for an activity, not only economic costs, but environmental costs as well. In the field of climate change, the guilty parties are rarely the first victims, which is an enormous problem as regards responsibility. That's why elements were put in place with regard

Environment committee   of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the United Nations' process, which John Stone talked about earlier, that is monitoring and evaluating the emerging climate research. The IPCC has been warning that in a warmer world there would be more weather extremes. For Canadians

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I think there are effects of climate change that do affect children. For one thing, it's predicted that there will be an increase of rather unique or exotic illnesses that children can get because of the change in climate. We're going to have different

Environment committee  I had two points, if I could be brief. On the climate change question, Mr. Glover mentioned the link between climate change and air pollution, but I'd like to re-emphasize that. What you do to control the emission of greenhouse gases is probably going to result in a concomitant

Environment committee  Let me clarify. I don't mean climate change models; I mean more of a business case model. Where would the components likely come from? What would the implications be? The committee hasn't really looked at that yet. We understand and we're supportive of the 2012 targets. My

Environment committee  , especially the problem of climate change, are being run out of other departments, and I guess for the most part it's Natural Resources Canada, if you think of EnerGuide and so on. Also, there was another program funding an environmental research network in Canada that I guess was also

Environment committee  Thank you very much for this question. It's somewhat technical, but as you know, the previous government was in a position to assess all climate change programs. This review enabled us to determine to what extent the programs would go forward. The $34.5 million and the amounts