Environment committee   are Heather Miller and Sylvie Marchand, who are responsible for a number of reports on this subject. In 2017 and 2019 we examined whether Finance Canada and Environment and Climate Change Canada supported decision-making in order to meet Canada's commitment to phase out inefficient fossil

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I wanted to start with questions for the Office of the Auditor General. In your introductory statement, you talked about two studies. One is with the Department of Finance Canada. The other one is with Environment and Climate Change Canada. Some

Environment committee   there, which is the potential for an uneven playing field. If one jurisdiction sticks its neck out and does something and the others don't follow, it could be put at a competitive disadvantage and so on. It's a difficult issue with climate change, because you're never going to get a 100

Environment committee   on Climate Change stated in its report that we have 3 years to cap our emissions and until 2030 to reduce them by 48%. It emphasizes solutions that are generated by cities. My question concerns this kind of coordination, which seems absent from the new federal emissions reduction plan

Environment committee  On our second panel, we have three witnesses with us today. We have Dr. Christina Hoicka, Canada research chair in urban planning for climate change, and associate professor in geography and civil engineering at the University of Victoria. We have Professor Éric Pineault

Environment committee  Thank you. My tri-council funded research focuses on the deployment of clusters of renewable energy innovations in communities in Canada and on nearly every continent. I think that Canada can reach its 2030 targets, which are only eight years away, to uphold its pledge made to

Environment committee  Thank you for the warm welcome, Mr. Chair, even though it's only virtual. Chair, it's a pleasure and an honour to be here, and I thank you for the invitation. I'm going to keep my comments very brief. The issue of fossil fuels is indeed vast, as is the issue of climate change

Environment committee  , I mean ready to deal with the impacts of climate change. We're already seeing the impacts of storms. We're already seeing the impacts of massive heat waves, and all of these are affecting the reliability of electricity around the country. The federal government is already

Environment committee  , utilization and storage, or CCUS, the effect of which would have been to slow down the transition and inflate costs. If the government provides funding that is supposed to be combatting climate change, but instead supports the technologies that are harmful to this effort, can we conclude

Environment committee  Yes. I think a lot of attention is being paid to fossil fuels and to technologies that are not necessarily market-ready, and I find that concerning. I have actually reviewed the new climate change plan that came out after I submitted my briefing, and the spending is up by about

Environment committee  Okay. I have another question for you. You wrote in a 2020 article, “Climate change needs to be addressed responsibly, but not presented as some monumental crisis justifying the abandonment of the economic order.” Can you expand on what you meant by this? Do you believe

Environment committee   report on climate change mitigation, the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change discusses the following benefits of complete fossil fuel subsidy removal. According to the IPCC, removing fossil fuel subsidies will reduce emissions, improve public revenue and macroeconomic

Environment committee   meet the challenge of global warming. Growing Canadian exports, contributing to Canada's economy and responding to the crisis of climate change—this is our business landscape today, and it has been evolving dramatically in recent years. As such, EDC's approach to oil and gas has

Environment committee  I would respond by saying that's it plainly not true. The over-400 signatories of the letter, me included, are all experts in a variety of aspects when it comes to climate change research, whether it's climate science or climate policy or energy modelling. There's just

Environment committee  I think that Canada, as a rich, highly developed country and a country that bears a disproportionate responsibility for having contributed to climate change, owes the world an obligation of leadership, which is expressly set out in article 4.4 of the Paris Agreement, which we