Environment committee  I'll just add a question to that. In the government's recent climate change plans, how heavily involved was the insurance industry in guiding some of the principles set out in that plan?

Environment committee  , as dour as industry painted it to be, was not actually what is needed. There's something quite a bit more. Is there not some effort to re-establish Canada's battered image with respect to climate change?

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'll be sharing my ten minutes with Mr.Vellacott. I appreciate the comments from each of the witnesses here today. Dr. Stone and Mr. Rutherford started with the science of climate change. I think we all agree we've moved beyond that. There is a sense

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Mr. Rutherford, sometimes we hear certain people say that it's hard to predict the weather for tomorrow or next week; how then can we predict the impact of climate change in 20 or 30 years? What do you have to say on that subject?

Environment committee  The science of climate change works and should be trusted.

Environment committee  Having regard to the demographic increase — we know that the world population is several times more than what it was in 1900 — and to technological means, vehicles and our habits and so on, and if we consider that there was already a climate change 100 years ago, to what extent

Environment committee  The problem with territorial division is simply related to the fact that Canada is responsible under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The provinces have no responsibility or duty in actual fact. As a result, energy management by province is not the best way

Environment committee   larger costs, especially involving mercury. These have to be added to the climate change costs that we're dealing with as a company. Clean coal is just around the corner. It is a solution, but there can be no commercial-scale development before 2012. That is the difficulty

Environment committee   Commission. Also, I've been involved in various international organizations. In the 1990s, I spent time as a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which produced the second assessment report. For a long time I was a member of the China Council, which is a group of seven

Environment committee  Thank you, sir. As an introduction, I was an assistant deputy minister in Environment Canada for many years. Then I worked as the deputy secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, where I helped establish the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Environment committee   a while. This month in fact is the tenth anniversary of the Pollution Probe, Environment Canada, and York University national conference on climate change and human health that took place in November of 1996. Speaking for myself, I've been working in the area of climate change

Environment committee  -term targets, we need long-term goals, and we need to start tomorrow on that. I think all of the panellists here are agreed about the urgency. Our company is committed to regulation. Our company is committed to the science that is behind climate change.

Environment committee   around climate change by the end of the Kyoto commitment period. We need to have emissions trading systems, updated building codes, and energy efficiency standards. We need to have the entire architecture, technology drivers, in place. Aside from the reductions, we should have

Environment committee  It's in the study that's coming out on Monday next week. It's based on the studies you referred to, done for the International Joint Commission on Ouranos and the studies that were done on the impact of climate change on Great Lakes water quality. They also estimated

Environment committee  One estimate is that there are 5,900 premature deaths across Canada due to heat waves and smog episodes. It's the combination of smog-producing chemicals and climate change that makes them much more effective in causing health problems. That's getting gradually worse. I'm