Environment committee  Thank you. I wanted to begin with the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act. Beginning in 2007 and ending in 2013, the act stipulates that the government in power produce an annual climate change report. Has the government met that requirement?

Environment committee  I was at a talk this morning with the U.K. presenting part of what their initiative is. One of the things they've done is they've required, under their legislation, that any climate change initiative must have a report to Parliament with a five-year backcast, what's happened so

Environment committee  So aside from the economic costs to business that were outlined in the Stern report and others if climate change is not acted upon—there are costs to not doing things—the market has since doubled, in 2007, up to $68 billion. If Canada doesn't have a verifiable way of measuring

Environment committee   to the Kyoto Protocol. Mr. Commissioner, I want to go back to energy prices. Just before doing that, I want to remind Canadians that it was the Progressive Conservative government of Brian Mulroney that, from 1988 to 1992, negotiated the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate

Environment committee  I'm familiar with our responsibility, but I'll ask my colleague, Monsieur Arseneault. My understanding is that the round table, when the draft climate change plan is submitted to Parliament, has 120 days to do an assessment, essentially of the work related to the estimates

Environment committee  To the best of my knowledge, no. I think this is a new requirement for the submission of an annual climate change plan.

Environment committee  To prove my point about not getting across the starting line, I'm going to ask about the Kyoto implementation act. To quote from your introduction on page 57, “The Act requires the Minister of the Environment to prepare and implement an annual climate change plan to address

Environment committee  . It is to provide an analysis of Canada's progress in implementing the climate change plans. So we viewed our mandate as twofold: one was within the strict Kyoto targets, and second, the overall implementation of the plans that had been presented by the government. In terms of the reasonable

Environment committee   would point out as a point of information that the Kyoto Protocol was the outgrowth of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was signed by the Conservative government in 1992. But I digress. I would like to speak a bit about your Fisheries and Oceans

Environment committee  This would be the overestimate, based on the government's own estimates that they put forward for their climate change plans in 2007 and 2008.

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the Commissioner for his report, which was unfortunately submitted while the committee was away on business in Alberta. It provides us with an update on the Canadian government's progress with respect to climate change policies

Environment committee   basin. If one were to take the broader view and look at the likely stresses on the basin in coming years, particularly in light of possible impacts of climate change, then one is inevitably struck, it seems to me, first, by the highly deferential role that the federal government has

Environment committee  Yes, I need to catch up on the numbers, but as I understand it there are two critical drivers, and the dam is one of them. There's also the impact of climate change on that river as well, in fact, on the Peace-Athabasca Delta itself. It is a net loss of water from the Peace

Environment committee   by climate change. We recognize that without a robust global and national response to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, including substantial performance improvements in the energy sector, all bets are off. Although we will focus in this presentation on the management of terrestrial

Environment committee  , and it is global emissions that are relevant for climate change purposes.