Environment committee   by local refinement on the ground. However, the cumulative benefits of these programs extend well beyond conserving and restoring habitat for at-risk wildlife. They also serve to support climate change initiatives through natural sequestration of carbon dioxide and to strengthen

Environment committee   was thinking about the insurance industry association. I'm getting big nods. They've been pretty...activist, you might say, in their fight against climate change, saying that they are the ones who are going to be on the hook. Given the big nods here at the table, I assume you've been

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Abiola. I would like to continue talking about the importance of wetlands in the fight against climate change. My colleague Ms. Quach also mentioned that wetlands are environmental goods and services and that they allow us to better adapt to climate

Environment committee   are remediating nutrients in wetlands. Those are just some of the values provided that all relate to the climate change aspect we all face.

Environment committee   exacerbate climate change. You said that the drainage of nearly 6,000 wetland basins resulted in the release of 34,000 tonnes of carbon. Could you tell us more about the purpose of wetlands, the importance of conserving them and their connection to carbon sequestration? Could you also

Environment committee   of greenhouse gases from these drained wetlands. That was just some of the early work that has been done on it. I think one positive thing that has come out of it is that wetland restoration is being thought about as a protocol in Alberta for mitigating climate change. We're just waiting

Environment committee   into the atmosphere is that wetlands are very effective at sequestering and storing carbon, so the carbon in those wetlands that would have otherwise been trapped is released into the atmosphere once those wetlands are drained and then cultivated, compounding the climate change issues

Environment committee   the continued loss and degradation of valuable habitats. If we choose to live with the status quo, we must be prepared to live with the consequences, such as historic levels of flooding, loss of biodiversity, as well as a variety of climate change impacts that will only compound the issues

Environment committee   that into the streams and rivers. I think it would be an interesting proposition to use wetlands to retain and filter water before it is transferred naturally into our streams and rivers. With climate change, sometimes we have long periods of drought, but when it starts to rain, many millimeters

Environment committee   on wetlands as they relate to climate change in Centre-du-Québec, but since the budgets of our provincial departments represent only 0.8% of total budgets, we do not have the necessary financial resources. The same is true of the municipalities. Canada will delegate powers to the provinces

Environment committee   wealth is. The high north has an endless number of large peat bogs and there are wetlands, but they are not necessarily threatened at this time. The only threat that weighs on northern wetlands is that of climate change. We are talking about permafrost, soils that are permanently

Environment committee  All right. So all that could offset climate change. You also addressed the issue of water levels. We often hear that the water levels in the St. Lawrence have constantly fallen in recent years. How do you think establishing a network of wetlands could help offset the effects

Environment committee  Protecting or increasing the number of wetlands could have an impact on climate change, but that is not the solution we should adopt. We are headed in the wrong direction if we think that natural environments, both forests and wetlands, will reduce climate change. To really

Environment committee   the present situation is quite dramatic. Climate change is staring us in the face, and it will have an impact on biology and on these ecosystems. One need only think of the quality of water in the river. Water levels are falling everywhere in the rivers in the metropolitan area. You can

Environment committee   dioxide, will be released into the atmosphere and will cause the kinds of climate change with which we are familiar. That is a little-known fact. However, many studies have noted this principle, but few have been conducted to monitor or confirm how much peat bog loss is due to climate