Environment committee  I thank Mr. Godfrey for his intervention, and the language we can clean up. This allows committee members some level of comfort, because we heard--in various iterations of climate change legislation--when the business community has testified, they've often lamented the lack

Environment committee  Again, I just wanted to make the point that in our Turning the Corner plan, we, I think, have set the tone for developing a global framework for climate change and for positioning Canada to be a leader, actually, in respect of that by achieving that 20% reduction from 2006

Environment committee   this type of accountability measure is long overdue when it comes to dealing with climate change in this country. That's it.

Environment committee   climate change discussions and in all negotiations with governments and other entities, particularly discussions and negotiations --there's a typo in English there-- resulting from decisions of the Conference of Parties to the UNFCCC and of the Conference of Parties serving

Environment committee  This is a piece of legislation that is trying to set out general principles. Since we are locating the conversation in the language of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, within that conversation there are assumptions about responsibility and about

Environment committee  It compels Canada and all signatories to the agreement to actually invest more in climate change science, not less; to invest more in research and analysis, including the latest reports from the IPCC, not less. That leads an objective observer to ask why the Canadian Foundation

Environment committee  The purpose of this is to reflect two things. One is that the state of our knowledge about climate change is always being added to by the scientific community, and if this is going to be a piece of living legislation, it always has to take into account the latest reports from

Environment committee   of how we got to be rich in the west; and then the per capita components, which deal with the consequences, particularly as we think about equity, for those countries that are being side-swiped by climate change--the low-lying island states, for example. Those would

Environment committee  — including consideration of the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most stringent greenhouse gas emissions targets adopted by other national governments. And then we come back to paragraph (c), which is amendment LIB-4, which says: (c) show

Environment committee  ; and And then you insert LIB-5: analysis used to establish each target, And there's going to be an amendment to this too: including consideration of the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the most stringent greenhouse gas emissions targets adopted

Environment committee  I want to change paragraph (b) to insert LIB-5, and as part of LIB-5, I want to say, “including consideration of”—that is new to LIB-5—“the latest reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”. In other words, it has to be taken into consideration, as well

Environment committee   plan. Bill C-377 does not have the action plan, and as I said, it's very poorly written. To show the world we care about climate change, we need to take action. Bill C-377 won't do that, so I won't be supporting this amendment.

Environment committee   on Climate Change. Everybody has heard the friendly amendment? Good. (Amendment agreed to: yeas 7; nays 0) (Clause 5 as amended agreed to) (On clause 6--Target Plan)

Environment committee  Okay--reduce, subject to the ultimate objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. Now, we have to make sure that we have the major emitters involved. The negotiations are ongoing. So we have to be very careful. At this point, the negotiations have

Environment committee  I have a question, I guess, from this. I find it a little bit strange and a little peculiar why we would be committing ourselves to something in the future, not knowing what that agreement will be, the Convention on Climate Change, and what those targets would be. Just