Environment committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for the opportunity to be here with you. In addition to my responsibilities as the ADM of the science and technology branch, I am also the Canadian focal point for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC. You have met my colleagues, so

Environment committee  Thank you, Nancy. As they said, I'm a senior research scientist and manager of the Canadian centre for climate modelling and analysis, located in Victoria. I was also elected vice-chair of working group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, in 2015. I'm

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Flato. The Government of Canada recognizes the real impact of climate change on our environment, as highlighted by the IPCC. That’s why the government worked with the provinces and territories, and with input from Indigenous peoples, to develop and adopt the pan

Environment committee  I think one of the most useful aspects of the new IPCC report is that it paints a clearer image of the impacts associated with 1.5°C versus 2°C. For many years, we have been trying to avoid 2°C, and while we were very aware that there were plenty of climate change impacts at 2°C

Environment committee  I come from the great municipality of Richmond. We're at sea level. We have a very ample farming industry and fishing industry. I'd like to follow up on Ms. Dzerowicz's point about the impact of climate change with the difference of 0.5°C. What would happen to a place like

Environment committee  Thank you. It's good to see a number of you again. The title of our study is “Clean growth and climate change in Canada: International leadership”. Due to logistics, we haven't really been able to talk to anybody from other parts of the globe. I'm wondering whether any of you

Environment committee   for renewables, and we saw some shift from coal. Older coal plants are shutting down on a fairly regular basis even now in the United States based on EPA policies around mercury, acid gases and other pollutants. I think there's a lot to be learned, and part of the UN climate change process

Environment committee  We're missing one key set of players at this table, which is our experts on adaptation. I think one of our concerns is that you can adapt to certain things and you can't adapt to others. The costs of trying to adapt to the impacts of climate change become prohibitive when you

Environment committee   on Climate Change? Are they accounted for?

Environment committee  We are trying to account for the emissions associated with “natural events” even if climate change is human-induced. The reporting requirements for the United Nations are narrowly focused on human emissions, so emissions from tailpipes and smokestacks, but we know, of course

Environment committee   alluded to earlier, in the sense that as the climate changes, there are certain parts of the natural system that change along with it in ways that can enhance emissions from natural sources. These include changes in the ocean and the way the ocean takes up carbon. Right now

Environment committee  Thank you, Chair, and thank you all so much for being here again. It's always great to have your testimony. It's very informative and precise. I want to pick up from where Mr. Lake was on forests. Is it not the case that climate change is exacerbating the problem around forest

Environment committee  Yes, I think there are many spheres of the complex issue of climate change, and Canada is attempting to play a leadership role in each of those. Step one is to pull your weight in terms of reducing emissions, which I feel we are doing, and that's being recognized. The others

Environment committee   that we're trying to tackle from a climate change perspective. Would that not be accurate?

Environment committee  In general terms, anything one does to reduce the net amount of carbon dioxide that's going into the atmosphere reduces the concentration, and therefore reduces the climate change that's associated with it. So, yes, in a general way anything you do to reduce emissions