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FINDING SUSTAINABLE PATHWAYS

OUR PROCESS

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.

RESEARCH

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

CONVENE

We convene opinion leaders and experts from across Canada around our table to share their knowledge and diverse perspectives. We stimulate debate and integrate polarities. We create a context for possibilities to emerge.

ADVISE

We generate ideas and provide realistic solutions to advise governments, Parliament and Canadians. We proceed with resolve and optimism to bring Canada’s economy and environment closer together.

Building Consensus for a Sustainable Future: Guiding Principles

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RELEASED
1993

On November 4, 1991, the Foreign Policy Committee of the
National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
hosted a conference in Toronto on “Trade, Competitiveness
and the Environment.” The purpose of the conference
was to gather the major Canadian and international stakeholders
from the government, business, environmental and academic
communities to exchange views on an issue of rapidly
growing importance on the public policy agenda. Recognizing
that this was the first such exercise of its kind in
Canada, and that the multifaceted links between trade
and the environment were still being charted, the conference
sought a preliminary identification of the key issues
at stake, the perspectives of major stakeholders, and
their initial judgements about how such issues might
best be addressed. This volume is based on the edited
version of the 21 major presentations made at the conference.