However, the share of clean renewable energy in Canada's energy mix will continue to grow.

‘support scheme’ means any instrument, scheme or mechanism applied by a Member State or a group of Member States, that promotes the use of energy from renewable sources by reducing the cost of that energy, increasing the price at which it can be sold, or increasing, by means of a renewable energy obligation or otherwise, the volume of such energy purchased. This includes, but is not restricted to, investment aid, tax exemptions or reductions, tax refunds, renewable energy obligation support schemes including those using green certific ...[+++]ates, and direct price support schemes including feed-in tariffs and premium payments;

‘energy from renewable energy sources’ means energy produced by plants using only renewable energy sources, as well as the share in terms of calorific value of energy produced from renewable energy sources in hybrid plants — which also use conventional energy sources; it includes renewable electricity used for filling storage systems, but excludes electricity produced as a result of storage systems;

in general a very large number of delegations welcomed the Action Plan and acknowledged its future positive impact, particularly with regard to securing the Community supplies of renewable energy, reducing the Community's dependency on fossil energies, providing viable alternative agricultural production and rural activities for farmers, improving sustainable development and biodiversity and maintaining rural activities; several delegations insisted on the need to keep sufficiently high import tariffs to make the development of Community biomass production possible and to avoid excessive imports of renewable ...[+++]sources of energy such as bio ethanol; some delegations stressed the importance of using different types of bio energies, including bio products, bio plastics and animal by-products; some delegations expressed their concern regarding possible further certification for sustainable sources of energy, pointing out the fact that it would increase the administrative burden on operators; more specifically a few delegations, underlining the insufficient amount of money spent on renewable energy in agriculture, suggested an increase either of the current level of EUR 45/hectare for the "carbon credit" premium and/or an increase in the current maximum eligible area (1,5 million hectares);

(c) "electricity produced from renewable energy sources" shall mean electricity produced by plants using only renewable energy sources, as well as the proportion of electricity produced from renewable energy sources in hybrid plants also using conventional energy sources and including renewable electricity used for filling storage systems, and excluding electricity produced as a result of storage systems;

As I mentioned earlier, if we are going to get to a situation where we are going to improve climate change emissions, it will be through energy efficiency, a change in the energy mix, or it will be through the capture and store system.