Innovation, Science, Environment 08/09
Innovation, Science, Environment 08/09

Author: Glen Toner

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0773575081

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Rapidly developing changes in technology, scientific knowledge, and domestic and international environmental issues force analysts to constantly reevaluate how public policy is coping. Are governments leading, following, or falling behind other societal actors? This third volume in a series of annual assessments of Canadian public policy provides an innovative approach to evaluating key developments in one of the most challenging areas of public policy in the twenty-first century. Leading experts look at crucial issues such as climate change, sustainable development policy tools, science management, and the international approach to governing intellectual property. They address recent developments within the pesticide, wildlife, and infrastructure policy areas involving the federal government and key private and non-governmental players. The 2008-09 volume explores the role of governments in a number of key areas, showing that while government institutions and policies should be part of the solution to the complex array of science and technology and environment and development issues facing Canadians, too often it appears they are part of the problem. Contributors include Glen Toner (Carleton), Robert Paehlke (Trent), Mark Jaccard and Rose Murphy (Simon Fraser), Jac van Beek (Canada Foundation for Innovation) and Frances Issaacs (National Research Council of Canada), Sara Bannerman (Carleton), Robert Gibson (Waterloo), David Robinson (Laurentian), Francois Bregha (Stratos Inc.), Scott Findlay and Annick Dezeil (Ottawa), Robert Hilton and Christopher Stoney (Carleton), and Jeremy Wilson (Victoria).

Innovation, Science, Environment 1987-2007
Innovation, Science, Environment 1987-2007

Author: Glen Toner

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0773576355

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Contributors analyse a number of dimensions of the Canadian experience in implementing sustainable development and critically assess how the country has done over this twenty year period. They discuss both the breakthroughs and disappointments of the Canadian experience, and look toward the future to discuss what additional steps need to be undertaken domestically if Canada is to once again achieve a position of leadership in the world and get on a truly sustainable trajectory.

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol
The Greenhouse Gas Protocol

Author:

Publisher: World Business Pub.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781569735688

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The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.

Climate Change 2014
Climate Change 2014

Author: Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 9789291691432

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Green Keynesianism and the Global Financial Crisis
Green Keynesianism and the Global Financial Crisis

Author: Kyla Tienhaara

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-17

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1351375660

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It is widely accepted that limiting climate change to 2°C will require substantial and sustained investments in low-carbon technologies and infrastructure. However, the dominance of market fundamentalism in economic thinking for the past three decades has meant that governments have generally viewed large spending programs as politically undesirable. In this context, the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) represented a huge opportunity for proponents of public investment in environmental projects or "Green Keynesianism". This book examines the experience of Australia, Canada, Japan, Korea, and the United States with Green Keynesian stimulus programs in the wake of the GFC. Unfortunately, on the whole, the cases do not provide much optimism for proponents of Green Keynesianism. Much less funding than was originally allocated to green programs was actually spent in areas that would produce an environmental benefit. Furthermore, a number of projects had negligible or even detrimental environmental outcomes. While the book also documents several success stories, the research indicates overall that more careful consideration of the design of green stimulus programs is needed. In addition to concrete policy advice, the book provides a broader vision for how governments could use Keynesian policies to work toward creating an "ecological state". This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, environmental economics, political economy, and sustainable development.

The Roads from Rio
The Roads from Rio

Author: Pamela Chasek

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-04-23

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1136450882

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At the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, popularly known as the Rio Earth Summit, the world’s leaders constructed a new "sustainable development" paradigm that promised to enhance environmentally sound economic and social development. Twenty years later, the proliferation of multilateral environmental agreements points to an unprecedented achievement, but is worth examining for its accomplishments and shortcomings. This book provides a review of twenty years of multilateral environmental negotiations (1992-2012). The authors have participated in most of these negotiating processes and use their first-hand knowledge as writers for the International Institute for Sustainable Development’s Earth Negotiations Bulletin as they illustrate the changes that have taken place over the past twenty years. The chapters examine the proliferation of meetings, the changes in the actors and their roles (governments, nongovernmental organizations, secretariats), the interlinkages of issues, the impact of scientific advice, and the challenges of implementation across negotiating processes, including the Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Commission on Sustainable Development, the UN Forum on Forests, the chemicals conventions (Stockholm, Basel and Rotterdam), the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the Convention on Migratory Species and the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture.

Foundation for a Sustainable Northern Future
Foundation for a Sustainable Northern Future

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Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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Subject to the full implementation of the Panel's recommendations, the Panel has concluded that the adverse impacts of the Mackenzie Gas Project and the Northwest Alberta Facilities would not likely be significant and that the Project and those Facilities would likely make a positive contribution towards sustainability. [...] The Panel would like to express its gratitude to the community field workers who travelled to various northern communities to The Panel would like to thank the Canadian Environmental explain the review process to everyone, and to the Aboriginal Assessment Agency, the Mackenzie Valley Environmental Impact interpreters who had the difficult task of simultaneously Review Board and the Inuvialuit Game [...] The prospect of these additional net gains without significant adverse impacts during the life developments was the basis of both the aspirations and the of the Project and effective use of the Project and associated apprehensions the Panel heard with respect to the Project. [...] The Proponents have committed to provide certain mitigations and enhancements with respect to the Project, the most In the Panel's view, the MGP offers a unique opportunity to build important of which include the establishment of the Aboriginal a sustainable future in the Mackenzie Valley and Beaufort Delta Pipeline Group, the negotiation of Access and Benefits regions. [...] The Proponents' committed to providing important mitigations and enhancements, mitigations and enhancements, the measures governments the most notable being the creation of the Mackenzie Gas Project would put in place, and the Panel's recommendations would, Impacts Fund.

International Climate Change Law
International Climate Change Law

Author: Daniel Bodansky

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 0199664293

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A perfect introduction to climate change law, this textbook offers students and scholars an overview of the international law governing this fundamental issue. It demonstrates how to interpret the language used in the applicable instruments and conventions, and sets climate change law in its broader international legal context.

The Paris Agreement on Climate Change
The Paris Agreement on Climate Change

Author: Geert Van Calster

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2021-03-26

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 1788979192

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Providing in-depth coverage of each article of the Paris Agreement, this Commentary offers a comprehensive, legal analysis of this most recent and important international instrument on climate change. This provision-by-provision textual analysis examines the commitments that parties to the Agreement have made to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects, whilst providing additional support to developing countries.