Environment committee  I had two points, if I could be brief. On the climate change question, Mr. Glover mentioned the link between climate change and air pollution, but I'd like to re-emphasize that. What you do to control the emission of greenhouse gases is probably going to result in a concomitant

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me introduce myself. I was for thirty years of my life a public servant. I retired eighteen months ago and have been on the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, first for Working Group I, which is on science, and now

Environment committee  Let me just say a few words about the urgency of addressing climate change. Last year, in preparation for the chairmanship of the G-8, the United Kingdom government organized a conference on dangerous climate change. The reference to “dangerous” is from article 2

Environment committee  , hydrologists, and cryospheric scientists throughout Canada, and indeed we have members internationally as well. We represent Canadian scientists carrying out research on the atmosphere, the oceans, and related environmental issues, including, of course, climate change. We have more than 800

Environment committee   to appear in front of the committee to review Bill C-288 on the important issue of climate change. CCPA is not here to speak for the industry in general, but we will talk a little about the overall issues facing our sector, in particular, and focus on the challenges and experiences

Environment committee   of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This is the United Nations' process, which John Stone talked about earlier, that is monitoring and evaluating the emerging climate research. The IPCC has been warning that in a warmer world there would be more weather extremes. For Canadians

Environment committee   Chicoutimi. I've been interested in climate change since 1979. My first research interest was fish, but as acid rain destroyed the fish, I developed an interest in the causes of acid rain and, from the causes of acid rain, in air pollution in general and climate change in particular. I

Environment committee  I will try, with some trepidation. I am not an economist. The issue, in my view, is climate change. As Dr. Villeneuve said, Kyoto is a first small step. Tackling climate change requires long-term, medium-term, and short-term targets and actions. As Professor Villeneuve

Environment committee  . The point is, though, that there is an urgency to act, and to act quickly, unless you're willing to accept the consequences of longer-term, built-in climate change going on for centuries. That may be a decision that society would want to take, but that's not for me to say. All I can say

Environment committee   against targets. I think it's good politics as well. The spirit of Bill C-288 to do that is a very positive thing. I only remind the committee that in addition to Canada ratifying Kyoto, Canada also ratified earlier the Framework Convention on Climate Change. I think that's actually

Environment committee   by production or for an activity, not only economic costs, but environmental costs as well. In the field of climate change, the guilty parties are rarely the first victims, which is an enormous problem as regards responsibility. That's why elements were put in place with regard

Environment committee   conduct an economic analysis of the effects of achieving the Kyoto Protocol objectives, but I think we should also do an evaluation of the costs associated with not complying with the Kyoto Protocol. I think the British study released last week, which puts the cost of climate change

Environment committee   of the country to countries that have less environmental performance. On the last point, Mr. Bigras, you've seen these numbers. I know you have the same arguments for Quebec. We haven't received one single bit of credit for this since the climate change discussions started, so I don't

Environment committee  I'd like Mr. Villeneuve to tell us about the impact of climate change in Quebec. I read the report he helped produce: “Adapting to Climate Change.” Could he summarize the impact of climate change in Quebec for us? Among other things, I'm thinking of the Quebec high north

Environment committee   in what we consider to be a risky area with respect to climate change, you will be penalized by higher rates? On the business front, to businesses that you believe are susceptible to climate change—the forestry sector and others who don't have a climate change strategy—do you