Research and innovation will interface with and support elaboration of a wide spectrum of Union policies and related targets, including the Common Agriculture Policy (in particular the Rural Development Policy, the Joint Programming Initiatives, including "Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change", "A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life" and "Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans") and the European Innovation Partnership 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability' and the European Innovation Partnership on Water, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Integrated Maritime Polic ...[+++]y, the European Climate Change Programme, the Water Framework Directive , the Marine Strategy Framework Directive , the EU Forestry Action Plan, the Soil Thematic Strategy, the Union's 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, the Strategic Energy Technology Plan, the Union's innovation and industrial policies, external and development aid policies, plant health strategies, animal health and welfare strategies and regulatory frameworks to protect the environment, health and safety, to promote resource efficiency and climate action, and to reduce waste.

Research and innovation will interface with and support elaboration of a wide spectrum of Union policies and related targets, including the Common Agriculture Policy (in particular the Rural Development Policy, the Joint Programming Initiatives, including "Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change", "A Healthy Diet for a Healthy Life" and "Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans") and the European Innovation Partnership 'Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability' and the European Innovation Partnership on Water, the Common Fisheries Policy, the Integrated Maritime Polic ...[+++]y, the European Climate Change Programme, the Water Framework Directive , the Marine Strategy Framework Directive , the EU Forestry Action Plan, the Soil Thematic Strategy, the Union's 2020 Biodiversity Strategy, the Strategic Energy Technology Plan, the Union's innovation and industrial policies, external and development aid policies, plant health strategies, animal health and welfare strategies and regulatory frameworks to protect the environment, health and safety, to promote resource efficiency and climate action, and to reduce waste.

With climate change, we see the opening up of the Arctic Ocean, the arctic shipping lanes and all of that.

Mr. Brent St. Denis (Algoma—Manitoulin, Lib.): Madam Speaker, it is my pleasure on behalf of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Government Operations and an honour for me to present the first report of the Standing Committee on Climate Change as we prepare for the Kyoto conference in Japan.

The Honourable Senator Oliver, Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, tabled its Sixth Report (Final) entitled: Climate Change: We Are At Risk.—Sessional Paper No. 2/37-798S.

The Honourable Senator Oliver, Chair of the Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, tabled its Fifth Report (Interim) entitled: Climate Change: We are at Risk.—Sessional Paper No. 2/37-527S.