Category Archives: Program

Water

Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada’s Natural Resource Sectors

September 22, 2011

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Access to clean, sustainable supplies of water is essential for Canada’s major natural resource sectors — energy, mining, forest, and agriculture. Our ecosystems also depend upon those same clean, sustainable water supplies, creating the potential for competing uses. With development of the natural resource sectors on the rise, does Canada have enough water to support…

Energy

Energy Efficiency in Canada’s Commercial Building Sector

September 13, 2011

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For Canada to meet its long-term emission reduction targets, every sector of the economy must do its share. Commercial buildings use 14% of our end-use energy and that they are responsible for close to 13 % of Canada’s greenhouse gases – including electricity-related emissions – cutting down energy use in these buildings makes sense from environmental and economic perspectives.

This study provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis that will help governments make the right policy choices enabling the commercial building sector to deploy the technologies necessary to achieve substantial energy efficiency gains and make a real contribution to Canada’s climate policy goals.

Biodiversity

Canada’s Boreal Forest

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In 2003, the NRTEE established a program to examine how to advance conservation in balance with economic activity on public lands in the boreal region currently experiencing industrial-level activity – the “working landscape”. Specifically, the National Round Table examined the role of fiscal and regulatory policy in achieving a balance between conservation and development in Canada’s boreal region.The result of extensive research and multistakeholder input, this report identifies opportunities for achieving the balance in the region through initiatives in four interrelated areas: leadership, education and information; ecological fiscal reform; innovations in planning and regulatory frameworks; and institution and capacity building.

Governance

The Sustainability Project

September 9, 2011

The NRTEE joined forces with the Public Policy Forum (PPF) to explore how new, collaborative engagement processes can lead to better sustainable development policy in Canada.

Climate

Climate Prosperity

September 2, 2011

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Climate change and Canada’s response to it have profound economic implications for our nation’s future. There are risks but there are also opportunities. We need to position ourselves to compete and prosper in an increasingly carbon-constrained global economy. Ensuring Canada is well-prepared to adapt and prosper as part of this new reality is the focus of a comprehensive policy research initiative by the National Round Table, called Climate Prosperity.

Climate

NRT and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society – Degrees of Change

August 21, 2011

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A Summary of the impacts of climate change expected in Canada over the 21st century The physical effects of climate change on Canada in the next century could touch everything from human health and community infrastructure to water resources and even tourism and recreation activities. On October 5, 2010, the National Round Table (NRTEE) and…

Governance

The NRTEE’s Response to its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act

August 16, 2011

The Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act (KPIA) passed by Parliament in June 2007 stipulates that every year, the Government of Canada must prepare a Climate Change Plan describing the measures and policies it has enacted to meet itsobligations under the Kyoto Protocol. KPIA mandates NRT to conduct research and assess the likelihood that the proposed measures…