Environment committee  I believe you're referring to the deal that developed countries reached in providing developing countries.... I would say that, as is the case overall—and I'm just making a personal reflection here—I think it's made it more difficult for the Prime Minister to make the case for Ca

Environment committee  I just wanted to offer a personal observation. What I'm doing with the World Bank is actually looking at scenarios for the low-carbon global future and what it will mean for the minerals and metals commodities markets. Nobody has stopped to think what wind turbines and solar ene

Environment committee  My only comment would be that it's sort of difficult to determine what part of the plan you want to include in making that estimation of being “on track”. Let me give you the example of what Chris was referring to. Where we have a huge advantage is our electricity grid. Again,

Environment committee  Yes, it was Jim Prentice. He was the first one to actually pose the challenge of 90% renewable by 2030. That's a bipartisan, bi-party commitment. The current environment minister has made the same commitment. If we show a recommitment towards that, to the electricity grid of 90%,

Environment committee  I'll take it first. Yes, you're giving a reasonable explanation. Those are typically the costs and prices that are bandied about. I guess what I'd hasten to add is that you have to start somewhere. By beginning to put in a price and designing it correctly, hopefully things can g

Environment committee  The point I would like to make is the one you made just previously. I think it's just so simplistic to talk about a carbon price versus regulations. It's the entire menu. There is not one country out there that has simply put in a pure carbon price without other measures. Every

Environment committee  It really is all of them. I think we need to have a much more nuanced and mature discussion around that, frankly, in this country.

Environment committee  No. Like I said in my intervention, it's not one or the other. It's “and”. The two are absolutely critical. I think the discussion is framed too much in an either-or context. That's what I'm objecting to.

Environment committee  The first challenge is the definition. It's always an issue. We have to give you an idea of the range of what we're dealing with. On the one hand, you have the IEA, which has estimated that overall global subsidies are in the area of around $450 billion and are all related to co

Environment committee  That's a very interesting question.

Environment committee  One of the areas that I think has always been massively overlooked is in the petroleum industry, the gas flaring that goes on continuously in many of the industrializing countries. I still remember flying once from Amsterdam to Japan and it was in the middle of the night, two in

Environment committee  But we have the Shell experience in Athabasca, which I witnessed first-hand. Those opportunities do exist. The other thing that I find overall in terms of the broader sustainable development agenda is that it's not just hard technologies. It's the services and the expertise tha

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I think it's entirely appropriate that we follow the order that we did. I originally hail from Edmonton, Alberta. I worked on issues relating to climate change and sustainable natural resource development for over 25 years with a wide range