Environment committee   emissions will continue to increase and we will not meet our national objectives. Those emissions will contribute to global climate change, the costs of which will likely be very large. The recent national climate assessment in the U.S. highlighted global impacts and very large economic

Environment committee   five years ago, we've been advocates of revenue-neutral carbon taxation as the best response to the challenge of climate change for the reasons that my fellow witnesses have given. We've also been active in the debates over carbon pricing across Canada, at both the federal

Environment committee   with climate change in Canada. We are talking about climate or the pricing of pollution within an international context, so I would encourage members from all sides to keep that in mind as they're moving through their questioning with our witnesses. To the comment on the witnesses, each

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I want to thank the witnesses for being here today. I think that what really matters, as many of you mentioned earlier, is the result. We're aware of climate change, and we must find solutions to improve our quality of life and the environment. My

Environment committee  Thanks very much. Thank you, gentlemen, for being here. I wish I had 40 minutes to ask you questions, to get some of this amazing stuff on the record very clearly. We've heard very often that pricing pollution is just one tool in the tool box to fight climate change

Environment committee  I think we can go even further. If Canada is not taking action to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, what reason do we have to expect that other countries would do the same? That is exactly the nature of the collective action problem that is climate change. Only by all taking

Environment committee   framework allows us to or wants us to. Then there's a whole group who, I would say, believe climate change is happening but they're not quite sure what the impacts of the price on pollution will be. The first question I was going to ask is the one that my colleague Darren asked

Environment committee   afraid of taking action on climate change and are fearful of what that will cost them than they are of the failure to take action and the loss of human civilization. We have rather large risks that we're dealing with, and we're not dealing with them quite adequately. I

Environment committee   for bearing with us. We're continuing the study on international leadership. It comes under the pan-Canadian framework on climate change. Today we're going to continue doing that, looking at the price on pollution, or as others sometimes refer to it, the carbon tax. The way we tend

Environment committee   of delay, or failing to act altogether? This is where I'd like to start today. The fact is, climate change is already costing Canadians. Last year was another record-breaking year for damages caused by extreme weather events, at $1.9 billion in insured losses. In July, a major heat

Environment committee   and in government—in trying to deal with these policies. Bad policies can induce political backlash. Ill-considered policies waste money on efforts that are ineffective, squandering time and opportunity to address climate change. Washington state's climate policy has faced all

Environment committee  Certainly in our engagement with Environment and Climate Change Canada, our main issue was around the feasibility of the target and the stringency of the reduction that would be imposed on our sector. Our view was in keeping with the principle of a challenging but feasible

Environment committee   on Climate Change report, the 1.5 report, shows us just how much of a difference 0.5°C in average warming can cause.

Environment committee  If we reduce carbon dioxide concentrations in the air, then we will have less warming and reduce climate variation as a result of climate change.

Environment committee  In order to provide you with the best scientific answer that I can, I'm going to point to the authoritative scientific voice on climate change and what causes global warming, which is human-induced heightened concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere