Environment committee  Certainly, we know that the poorest and most vulnerable are impacted dramatically more by climate change, and yet they have had very little responsibility for it. We are seeing larger impacts around the world, impacts that we may start to face more of. I think increasingly we're

Environment committee  I think there are a number of things we could do. I think, certainly, we should support our farmers in finding cleaner technologies. Many of them are using amazing technologies now that allow them to reduce their emissions. We should offer support for those kinds of things. Also

Environment committee  It's the Canadian Coalition for Climate Change and Development, called C4D.

Environment committee  That's about 25 Canadian organizations—NGOs and environmental organizations—focusing largely on international climate change in their work, but in the scope of other international work that they do. We come together to share knowledge and influence policy as well.

Environment committee  There are a number of reasons why multilateral organizations are funded. We hear from this government regularly about the importance of leveraging money. We've made these huge commitments on climate finance, contributing towards $100 billion with donor countries by 2020. To reac

Environment committee  To be honest, I would have to check that as well. We have a big spreadsheet of the entire breakdown of the $2.65 billion. Certainly there have been some initiatives for adaptation. I can tell you, though, that ranking 16th was in terms of our fair share of giving. In terms of ad

Environment committee  I think that a big part of that is that most of our funding is going through multilateral organizations, but specifically multilateral development banks as well as this blended finance. When you think about what a private company would want to invest in, it's more likely that it

Environment committee  Our climate finance largely counts as our official development assistance, our aid. Aid is there to support developing countries and support the poorest and most vulnerable. The farmers who we talk to here in Canada who support us know that the most effective way to implement ada

Environment committee  That's right.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  Yes, it is, very much so. The majority of our donations come from actual Canadian farmers who are involved in what we call growing projects. Someone will donate the land. Often there are private companies donating seeds and fertilizer, and then together a community harvests this

Environment committee  I think that's an interesting idea. I'm not an expert on carbon taxes. That's not the focus of our work. I think a lot of farmers we deal with here in Canada feel a little bit attacked by the conversation on climate change. However, many of them will talk about changing weather

Environment committee  We're always interested in more money in the pocket, because it enables us to do a lot more, but I'm not an expert on how that would translate.

Environment committee  Yes. Absolutely. I think many of the farmers we talk to need to rely on seeds that are adapted to changing conditions. As I was saying, I was recently in Tanzania as well as Uganda. Many of the farmers there were given these seeds either through government support or through NGO

Environment committee  Thank you for the invitation to speak to the committee about Canada's climate finance commitments. I'd like to bring the other side of the story here today. Before I make any recommendations, I want to tell you about a woman I met last month in Tanzania, which is in eastern Afr