Environment committee  Absolutely not. Absolutely not. All of my work that is done in the context of my Sage work is funded by foundations. I have never been paid by any government under any regime.

Environment committee  No. In fact, unfortunately, a series of bad government decisions, in my view, over many years--including Conservative governments, by the way, so let's just put this in the context of government generally--have made too many promises to industry that bound us to uneconomic approa

Environment committee  No, I'm talking about my plan, which did not propose a lot of subsidies. My plan proposed regulation, a real emissions trading system, a standard in the tar sands, vehicle emissions trading, building code standards, and those kinds of things. Proposals for a fund for government t

Environment committee  I am very proud you asked that question. In 1996 the Climate Action Network produced a plan, the rational energy program, that achieved minus 6% by 2010. It was one year before the negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol. I'm happy to table that very credible plan with the organizati

Environment committee  Obviously the scientific consensus is strong, so I'm not going to get into that debate, but I would comment on the need to challenge this perspective or rhetoric that somehow Canada should not be participating in international negotiations. It comes back to our security. It com

Environment committee  I'll just speak to the importance of setting stretched targets and the reason why Kyoto is so valuable. John said on several occasions that we need realistic targets, as has the government. I spent seven years working with communities across Canada and set up the Green Municipal

Environment committee  Yes, we can.

Environment committee  You set your target, you establish a proper economy-wide cap-and-trade system, and you allow the private sector, through its domestic and international opportunities, to meet its objectives. Yes, you can.

Environment committee  All environment groups.

Environment committee  Well, I'm not afraid to take it on. It's difficult, when you've been working on this issue so long, to hear the same things that we've been saying for 15 years. How much capital stock turnover do you think we've had in the last 15 years? It's always portrayed as the future, the

Environment committee  Could I just add to that?

Environment committee  Absolutely. In fact if you look at the demonstrable progress report that the UN published, in fact if you go through it carefully and not just cite certain aspects of it in terms of where countries are today with respect to their targets, every single country in their national co

Environment committee  Yes, it has two impacts. One relates to the compliance regime of the protocol, and of course there's already been a request for the compliance committee to consider Canada's situation. I think it is an international embarrassment that Canada would be the first country to be broug

Environment committee  Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity to provide an overview of the recent outcomes of the Nairobi climate negotiations. I am the director of the Sage Climate Project at the Sage Centre. Sage is an operating charity carrying out a number of projects that are focused on co