ontario’s in a changing climate€¦ · ontario’s opportunities in a changing climate ... cap...
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate
Latornell ConferenceNov 19, 2015
Ellen SchwartzelEnvironmental Commissioner (Acting)
1
![Page 2: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Overview
global context
Ontario’s opportunities
Adapting to change: where are the policy drivers?
2
![Page 3: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
The ECO’s Expanded Mandate
Annual reports on: [the Green Energy and Green Economy Act, 2009]
greenhouse gas emissions
energy conservation
![Page 4: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
ECO’s Greenhouse Gas Report 2015
4
![Page 5: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
ECO’s Report on Climate Data2015
5
![Page 6: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
The science is clear- land and ocean surface temperatures are rising as predicted
6
![Page 7: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
7
![Page 8: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Global mean surface temperatures have risen 0.85 degrees C since 1880
8
![Page 9: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Global mean surface temperatures have risen 0.85 degrees C since 1880
9
![Page 10: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
10
Nov. 9, 2015:Met Office, Hadley Centre for
Climate Science and ServicesU.K.
![Page 11: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Ontario’s climate is changing too: Ontario’s average temperature increases have outpaced
the global average (1900-2012 time-span)
Feeling the Heat: GHG Progress Report 2015: p. 37
11
![Page 12: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Ontario’s climate is changing too: Number of frost-free days in Ontario increased by 18 days between 1979 and
2009.
18 days
over 30 years
Feeling the Heat: GHG Progress Report 2015: p. 37
12
![Page 13: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Ontario’s climate is changing too:Lyme Disease: reported cases have gone up four-fold in four years.
144 2009
to 682 2013
Feeling the Heat: GHG Progress Report 2015: p. 9
13
![Page 14: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Ontario’s climate is changing too:Lyme Disease: reported cases have gone up four-fold in four years.
144 2009
to 682 2013
Feeling the Heat: GHG Progress Report 2015: p. 9
14
![Page 15: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Ontario’s climate is changing too:
Expect more hot days:Toronto and Windsor can expect double the current average number of over 30 degrees C, by 2050
Feeling the Heat: GHG Progress Report 2015: p. 9
15
![Page 16: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases;
“Mitigation”;How is Ontario doing?
16
![Page 17: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Ontario set targets in 2007to cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions
6% below 1990 by 2014 (to 166 Mt)
15% below 1990 by 2020 (to 150 Mt)
80% below 1990 by 2050 (to 35 Mt)
17
![Page 18: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Ontario’s targets not arbitrary;
International goals
Assume we can keep within 2 degrees of warming (compared to pre-industrial levels)
Assume planet can cope with 2 degrees of warming
18
![Page 19: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Ontario’s Target for 2050: our challenge!
19
![Page 20: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Ontario’s Greenhouse Gases
Where do they come from?
20
![Page 21: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
21
![Page 22: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
22
![Page 23: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
23
![Page 24: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
24
![Page 25: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
25
![Page 26: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Ontario’s Emissions Profile
26
![Page 27: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Ontario’s Targets
2014
2020 ?
27
![Page 28: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
28
![Page 29: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
29
![Page 30: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases;Ontario has options!
British Columbia: carbon tax since 2008; ~7 cents/litre of gas
Quebec:Cap and trade system for carbon credits
Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015
30
![Page 31: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Ontario Action on Climate Change:
Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015
(some details just released: Nov. 13, 2015)
Climate Summit of the Americas July 7-9
Climate Change Strategy promised for 2015
31
![Page 32: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
GDP up; GHGs down
32
![Page 33: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases;Ontario has options!
-a price on carbon
-use our low-carbon electricity for electric vehicles
33
![Page 34: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases;Ontario has options!
compact urban development
34
![Page 35: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases;Ontario has options!
compact urban development
35
![Page 36: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases;Ontario has options!
-a price on carbon
-use our low-carbon electricity for electric vehicles
-compact urban development
-strengthen the Ontario Building Code
-incentives to retrofit existing buildings
-build up carbon in farm soils
36
![Page 37: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
Cutting Greenhouse Gases
The Science is ClearOntario has options
37
![Page 38: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Adapting is a challenge:
38
![Page 39: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/39.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Adapting is a challenge:
What are the policy drivers?
39
![Page 40: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
Four Big Ideas
40
![Page 41: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/41.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Insurance risks are changing:
Finch Ave. wash-out:August 19, 2005 storm
100-year storm: ~175mm rain in under one hour
Insured losses: $500 million
41
![Page 42: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/42.jpg)
Adapting to Change
42
![Page 43: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/43.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Insurance risks are changing:
Don Valley flooded:July 8, 2013 storm
~126mm rain in ~ two hours
Insured losses: $940 million
43
![Page 44: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/44.jpg)
Adapting to Change
2014
44
![Page 45: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/45.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Infrastructure:(now renamed: Economic Development, Employment and Infrastructure)
Ontario’s 10 Year Infrastructure Plan
Promise:
adaptation to be built in
45
![Page 46: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/46.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Infrastructure:
Ontario’s 10 Year Infrastructure Plan
ECO’s 2014 finding: No performance measures for municipal stormwater systems
46
![Page 47: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Infrastructure:Promise:
vulnerability assessments for infrastructure
47
![Page 48: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/48.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Infrastructure:
Asset Management Guide 2012 – ($$ pre-condition)ECO’s 2014 finding:
No mandatory vulnerability assessments; no guidance
48
![Page 49: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change:
2010 Promise:
Update Stormwater Planning and Design Manual
49
![Page 50: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/50.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Environment and Climate Change:Update of Stormwater Planning and Design Manual
ECO 2014 Finding:
-? drafting voluntary guidance?
50
![Page 51: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/51.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry:
No Promise: Update of Floodplain Maps
-most are outdated
51
![Page 52: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/52.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing:
Provincial Policy Statement 2014
No requirement to identify vulnerable lands or infrastructure
No prohibition of development in flood fringe
No guidance, performance measures, outreach, training
52
![Page 53: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/53.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Is Ontario’s EA process helping?
Commitment;
Ontario will integrate climate change impacts into the EA process
(2011; Climate Ready; Action 8)
53
![Page 54: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/54.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Update: “MOECC has prepared draft guidance for considering climate effects in EA processes. The guidance focuses primarily on climate adaptation measures. Staff have also included references to climate change as an environmental effect to be considered in the EA processes in the EA program’s Codes of Practice. Considerations on how to move the document forward are being assessed.” (MOECC fall 2014)
54
![Page 55: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/55.jpg)
Adapting to Change
2014 Codes of Practice for
Individual EAs
Class EAs
…proponents should give consideration as to how the project… may interrelate with the environment, including potentially changing climatic conditions over time.
55
![Page 56: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/56.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Adapting is a challenge:
policy drivers needed!
56
![Page 57: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/57.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Uncertainty will be part of the picture
57
![Page 58: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/58.jpg)
Adapting to Change
Uncertainty will be part of the picture:
What will the climate look like?
– data needed!
58
![Page 59: Ontario’s in a Changing Climate€¦ · Ontario’s Opportunities in a Changing Climate ... Cap and trade system for carbon credits Ontario: Cap and trade announced April 13, 2015](https://reader035.vdocuments.mx/reader035/viewer/2022071117/600756fb23e22f298b333e7d/html5/thumbnails/59.jpg)
Thank you!
Ellen Schwartzel, Commissioner (Acting)
59