Environment committee  We're talking about several zeroes after the decimal point.

Environment committee  MP Fisher, I'm happy to speak to that. It's interesting. There was a recent report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that spoke to the contributions that nature-based solutions can make to climate change and attributed some 37% of the climate mitigation solu

Environment committee  No. That's a 10-second answer.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That's another very good question, but it's quite difficult to answer. Please allow me to give you some context. It is cheaper to acquire hectares, or spaces, in northern Canada than in southern Canada. However, it is clear that the majority of species at risk, including those t

Environment committee  I'm happy to speak to the Canadian wildlife service context. It's been a very busy year since the funding we received through budget 2018. We're expecting a growth of roughly 200 FTEs to support the initiative and have made rapid progress to staff up those positions.

Environment committee  It's a good question. I may ask my colleague Mark to speak a little bit to it. Blue Mountain-Birch Cove Lakes was certainly a key one, an opportunity to partner with the Halifax Regional Municipality to protect the 135 critical hectares of urban wilderness. Another initiative

Environment committee  I'm happy to speak to that—and Michael, feel free to add. I spoke briefly in my remarks to the pathway to Canada target 1 process, which is a federal, provincial, territorial, indigenous exercise to look at, in part, precisely that question, to provide guidance that would be sha

Environment committee  Okay. I hope it meets your standard as well.

Environment committee  For the challenge funding, the focus is terrestrial and fresh water. The Department of Fisheries and Oceans is making significant investments in its own regard for marine-protected areas, as is Parks Canada.

Environment committee  There's a national advisory panel, which would be the NGO-led group, and as well the indigenous circle of experts. Both groups have produced reports that have been foundational to the work we are currently undertaking; they provided advice that fed into the production of the “One

Environment committee  Absolutely. The current percentages are 11.8% for land and freshwater areas and just over 8% for marine areas. This leaves us with just under 2% to fill in for marine areas and about 5% for land areas.

Environment committee  Each year, we report on our progress on the 20 targets set out in the Convention on Biological Diversity. I would say that we are on schedule for the majority of these targets. For those targeting terrestrial protected areas, we have a little catching up to do. That is why we are

Environment committee  As I mentioned, we have seen 148 final proposals come in on the target 1 challenge, just over $800 million in requested funding for $175 million that we have available to us, so there is a very strong field. In terms of the process, we're looking to move quite quickly. We've ha

Environment committee  I'd be remiss in not noting the massive support that our colleagues at Parks Canada have provided to us in that exercise.