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Environment committee Canada reports transparently each year, every second year to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and in the alternate years in our public reporting in Canada on our emission forecast and the results of the the inventory on actual observations. In the most re
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee The response I was giving is that the government has articulated a plan to achieve the target. That includes both measures modelled in the report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change but also other measures that have not been modelled including public tran
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee What I'm conveying is that in the model portion, it brings us to 583 megatonnes and we believe through these areas that have not been modelled—
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee No, I believe what it represents in areas, for example, in land use and land use change, the international rules for that are still being developed. Canada has a very robust system of tracking stored carbon in forests and in agricultural lands, which we believe, until those inter
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee As I said, there's a difference between—
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee Madam Chair, what I would like to do is just....
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee I was trying to explain my answer. The target in 2030 is 517 megatonnes. We believe that we're on a path to achieve that target through the measures in the pan-Canadian framework, which include those modelled and reported in the UNFCCC and in that same report, and in other public
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee The commissioner on environment and sustainable development's report was focused on previous plans that looked at targets in 2020. She did not audit the 2030 target. We look forward to that assessment.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee Perhaps I can start and then turn to my colleague Daniel to go further. The Government of Canada has been working with provinces and territories, indigenous peoples, and other stakeholders over the course of the past 18 months to almost two years on a process called “Pathway to
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee I'll comment, and then I'll turn to my colleague Daniel. All provinces and territories are engaged in the conversation Daniel and I co-chaired with our colleague from Alberta, with deputy ministers, just last week. The Government of Quebec invested in the recent budget in conse
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee In fact, this represents an increase to the low-carbon economy fund and an investment in freshwater resources and species at risk.
June 5th, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee Further to that, as the minister noted earlier, the first strategic assessment will be on climate change and how, in terms of guidance to project proponents in consideration of project reviews, addressing our Paris commitments and the pan-Canadian framework will be considered—
March 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee For strategic assessments—and that obviously forms some of the context—the agency will be working to provide guidance on strategy and regional assessments. That will be consulted on. The bill provides for a high-level advisory committee, which will also provide guidance that then
March 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee As I noted over the past decade or more through our reporting to the United Nations and in alternate-year reporting to Canadians on emissions, that includes our modelling. That modelling includes all measures that have been undertaken and implemented by the Government of Canada o
March 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas
Environment committee I don't have that number offhand. As I noted, it's built into the modelling along with other measures such as—
March 22nd, 2018Committee meeting
Stephen Lucas