Environment committee   on climate change and emission reduction. I think those are important. Frankly, every country can't be buying emission credits from around the world, because that's just saying it's not our responsibility. At some point you have to focus on domestic emission reduction, and we need

Environment committee   not be a risk identified for large industry then becomes redistributed to other participants in Canada, other stakeholders in Canada. We're all going to pay for climate change and a price cap simply limits the risk to one group of stakeholders. There are alternatives to pricing caps

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and good morning. Bonjour à tous. I'm accompanied today by Nancy Coulas, who is our director of national environmental quality policy. Nancy and I have both worked on climate change issues for well over ten years, and it may be a reflection

Environment committee  Thank you. Next we have Mr. John Drexhage, director, climate change and energy.

Environment committee   experience and knowledge in managing markets, along with the intellectual capital in climate of the Chicago Climate Change, the partnership that we have created is uniquely positioned to build here in Canada a very efficient, professional market, with great transparency in the world

Environment committee   for remaining a party to Kyoto. I also want to mention that there are a lot of parallels drawn between the smoking issue and the resistance to the evidence that smoking was harmful, and the climate change campaign. There have been recent documentaries. I want to suggest

Environment committee   in this is to provide the best scientific information about climate change—its variability, trends, and future scenarios—and then engage the Canadian stakeholders, public and private, in an informed debate about what they can best do to respond to the risks and opportunities, and adapt accordingly

Environment committee   what's going to happen in the next while—and this process has been accelerated by the shift of power that has taken place in Congress in the United States—is that the United States will start to move quickly on climate change, and then their industries will become more competitive

Environment committee  In terms of addressing a very critical but small component of climate change, I'm very much supportive of this bill, but as I said, it addresses only a very small part of the issue. As I mentioned earlier, and as I responded when I was asked to be a witness, my expertise

Environment committee   in its title: An Act to ensure Canada meets its global climate change obligations under the Kyoto Protocol. In terms of targets, the Kyoto Protocol requires that Canada reduce its average annual greenhouse gas emissions, during the period of 2008 to 2012, to 6% below their level

Environment committee  Fair enough. Mr. Sauchyn, there has been a lot of talk from folks who are maybe a little less concerned about climate change that often what is talked about in the adaptation question is the negative aspects: the increase of flood activity, the storm intensity, and all the rest

Environment committee   will be available. Therefore, the fact is that most of the impacts of climate change are adverse. And that's mostly because we have developed a resource management strategy in this country and in the western world that's quite inflexible, and we are not well adapted to the current climate

Environment committee  Is it fair to suggest that those members of your industry see climate change as a significant problem?

Environment committee  I am only referring to a tax whose revenues would go directly into a climate change adaptation fund. This is key. There would be a tax on projects under the clean development mechanism. As long as the tax revenues are put directly into a fund, they could finance adaptation

Environment committee  Thank you. To my great surprise, the minister told us that she intended to table regulations on fighting climate change in January, and she repeated this pledge in Nairobi. To date, have you had any negotiations with the government about these regulations?