Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, members. I was only asked yesterday afternoon if I would come to speak to you, and I am always delighted to do that. It didn't give me very much time to prepare a presentation specifically for you, I'm afraid. At lunchtime today I gave a lectur

Environment committee  Yes, you understood correctly. Being part of the IPCC and in my job in government I've actually worked with and have sat with scientists who have done these calculations and these experiments, and I've rigorously questioned them. In the end, I've been convinced that they're right

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I have a couple of points to help with this discussion. As I said earlier, I was a federal civil servant for a long time. I was actually part of some of the negotiations and policy development. I can remember at least seven years ago having s

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 mentioned

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 of the framewor

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 for