The budget commits no designated funding to the climate plan unveiled
earlier this year by Environment Minister Rod Phillips, but includes
unspecified dollars for a long-overdue climate vulnerability assessment,
and for performance standards for industrial greenhouse gas emitters, states
David McLaughlin, climate change director-Canada at the International
Institute for Sustainable Development. “The good news, therefore, is
that the government appears committed to what it already announced.
Nothing added but nothing subtracted either. The question now becomes,
when do they act and how much money will they actually commit to it?” he
writes.