Natural Resources committee  Thank you. Before addressing that, I would like to say that the United States is not a signatory to the convention. We will be able to circle back and get you the information on who has actually signed and who has actually made cases. Our obligation under the convention, once

Natural Resources committee  Again, I don't know. I have no idea. I've never known that number so—

Public Accounts committee  I can't add much more detail to that. The chemical management plan is in the report.

Public Accounts committee  I'll start trying to answer your question by addressing that we've identified essentially seven mechanisms for informing our risk assessment process. The seven mechanisms are the categorization process we've already discussed that was taking a look at the 23,000 substances in com

Environment committee  That's the same question.

Environment committee  I'll try. In the synthesis report that Dr. Stone and Dr. Weaver have answered numerous questions about, there is a section on adaptation that lists numerous possibilities and numerous things people should keep their eyes on. An interesting aspect of it deals with combining, whe

Environment committee  Sorry, what research do you mean?

Environment committee  Francis will be able to speak to this a little bit. We have an adaptation and impacts research division, under Dr. Zwiers. Dr. Zwiers is the director of the atmospheric science group. Actually, no, it's not under it, is it?

Environment committee  No, it's under a director general. But we have a small group--about a handful--roughly eight or nine scientists in our impact and adaptation group who are scattered across the country.

Environment committee  I'd be happy to be formally invited to come back to speak to that, and to have the appropriate officials from our department. I'm not in a position right now to speak to that.

Environment committee  On a procedural point, Chair and Clerk, we were invited to be here to speak to the IPCC process and our involvement in that, and I'm not sure if this is an appropriate question. I defer to the Chair.

Environment committee  We're here for the latter.