Canada’s Lead Climate Negotiator Answers to You

You asked, he answered.

Michael Martin, Canada’s Ambassador for Climate Change and head UN negotiator here at the Bonn II climate talks, sat down with me as I asked the questions asked by you, the readers.

Do you have a negotiating mandate for here in Bonn?
How do you think the talks are going so far?
How can Canada negotiate emission targets for the year 2020 when our federal targets won’t be phased in until 2012?
Given China’s recent positive actions on climate change, is Canada now more willing to agree to the required science-based emission targets?
Does Canada have a position yet on agreeing to avoid 2 degrees of average global warming, which is the projected temperature point at which irreversible changes largely occur?
If you could ask 1000 Canadians to do one thing to be constructive and help you be effective in these negotiations, what would you suggest they do?

Read the answers here.

About Zoë

Zoë is the co-author of ''Global Warming for Dummies" and Editor on ItsGettingHotInHere. She is the Climate Policy & Advocacy Specialist for WWF-Canada and is on the provincial renewable energy stakeholder consultation project team in Nova Scotia. She is President on the national board of Sierra Club Canada and was a founding member of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. Zoë attends United Nations Climate Change Conferences and was aboard the Students On Ice International Polar Year 2007 Expedition to Antarctica.