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FINDING SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS

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Our process helps Canada achieve sustainable development solutions that integrate environmental and economic considerations to ensure the lasting prosperity and well-being of our nation.

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We rigorously research and conduct high quality analysis on issues of sustainable development. Our thinking is original and thought provoking.

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Annual Report 2009-2010 – A Look Ahead

WATER SUSTAINABILITY AND CANADA’S NATURAL RESOURCE SECTORS

The Water Sustainability and Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors Program has an ambitious set of goals for Phase II, which runs from April 2010 to March 2011. During this period, the NRTEE will conduct research into water governance and management, specifically looking at water allocation, policy instruments, data and information management and collaborative governance. The research will be complemented by a number of meetings with stakeholders and experts. This will lead to a second report, to be released in spring/summer 2011, which will provide options, solutions and recommendations for improving water governance in the country.

CLIMATE PROSPERITY – THE ECONOMIC RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES OF CLIMATE CHANGE FOR CANADA

Climate change and Canada’s response to it have profound economic implications for our nation’s future. Ensuring Canada is well-prepared to adapt and prosper in an increasingly carbon constrained global economy is the focus of this comprehensive policy research initiative by the NRTEE, which began in 2009-2010 and which will continue to be a priority of the NRTEE over the next two years. The timeline below illustrates the NRTEE publishing plan in the coming years.

CLIMATE PROSPERITY TIMELINE
CLIMATE PROSPERITY TIMELINE

In 2010-2011, our analysis of Canada-U.S. climate policy risks and opportunities will be finalized. We are also planning to complete work on both the Physical Impacts of Climate Change in Canada and the Net National Costs of Climate Change. We expect to release those three reports over the course of the year. The NRTEE will also collaborate with the Royal Canadian Geographical Society towards its October 2010 issue of the Canadian Geographic magazine – and its French-language companion Géographica – fully dedicated to the NRTEE’s Climate Prosperity program.

Finally, building on the first few reports of Climate Prosperity, the NRTEE will initiate, in 2010-2011, the work towards the development of a range of policy pathways and actions to help Canada take advantage of its potential to adapt to a changing climate, as well as those necessary for Canada to thrive in a global low-carbon economy. This work will lead to the release of two policy reports in 2011-2012.