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Environmental Policy
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Voluntary Environmental
Initiatives: The State of Play in 2007, and Recommendations Concerning
the Ontario Approach
November 2007
This report provides a preliminary
analysis of Ontario's Environmental Leaders (OEL) program, and makes
suggestions for refinements to the OEL program, as well as more
far-reaching proposals for additional voluntary environmental
initiatives programs and related adjustments to the Ministry of the
Environment environmental protection approach.
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Environmental Aspects of Product
Standards: The Role of Voluntary Environmental Standards in Sustainable
Consumption and Production
June 2007
This report compares and contrasts efforts in Canada with international
initiatives to address the environmental aspects of product standards.
The aim is to identify initiatives that could be undertaken to implement
policies and practices equivalent to those of leading jurisdictions
around the world.
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Comparative Study of Consumer Groups and Environmental
NGOs Engaged in International Standards Work
June 2006
The purpose of this report is to compare and contrast Canadian consumer
groups and environmental non-governmental organisations (ENGOs)
with those in the United States and the European Union, and to identify
and discuss ideas on how to further develop Canadian
environmental/consumer-related interest group capacity to participate in
international standards setting.
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Corporate Social
Responsibility: Standards and Objectives Driving Corporate Initiatives
January
2006
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a term that has increasingly
become a part of corporate dialogue. Encompassing a range of issues and
objectives, corporations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs),
governments, investment groups and consumers all play a part in the
evolving role of the corporation. This report will examine the existing
definitions of CSR and their use within corporate and NGO dialogue;
consider the various tools through which CSR is being integrated and
developed, including standards and guidelines, market incentives and
investment indices; offer a synopsis of corporate objectives and goals
in developing CSR frameworks
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Defining Corporate
Environmental Responsibility. Canadian ENGO Perspectives
October
2005
This report is a
comprehensive view of the environmental community’s expectations of
companies that claim to be environmentally responsible. In the report,
more than 50 environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) define
corporate environmental responsibility and describe their vision of an
environmentally responsible company.
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Is There
an "ENGO Case" for CSR? Environmental Non-governmental
Organizations (ENGOs) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): Seeking
Common Ground to Build Consumer Support.
March 2004
Pollution Probe is pleased
to release this report on ENGO views about Corporate Social Responsibility
(CSR). CSR (recently being referred to as Corporate Responsibility in some
of the literature) is a topic of growing interest, both in Canada and
internationally.
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ENGO-Business
Partnerships: Lessons Learned
August
2004
The objective of this study is to explore and document the lessons that
environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) have learned from
working in partnership with industry. The results of the study are
intended to help ENGOs determine whether, and how, to engage in
partnerships, and to identify key issues and success factors for
ENGO-business
partnerships.
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Air
Quality, Water and Soil: Issue Paper No. 2
September
2003
This is the second in a series of nine issue papers commissioned by the Neptis
Foundation for consideration by the Central Ontario Smart Growth Panel
established by the Government of Ontario. This paper argues for an
approach to air, water, and soil conservation that goes beyond "no
net loss" of quality or function to "net gain". That is,
changes in the environment should, over time, bring about improvements in
the quality and function of air, water, and soil in the Central Ontario
Zone. The principle requires monitoring environmental indicators, and the
paper suggests 10 potential indicators that could be used. The paper also
looks at major trends in air, water, and soil quality, their current and
long-term effects, and proposed solutions for each area.
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NOTE:
The entire series of Smart Growth issue papers can be viewed on the Neptis
Foundation website.
A
Taxonomy of Canadian Environmental Standards
August 2003
The purpose of this report is to
contribute to a broad understanding by Canadians of the variety of ways in
which environmental standards are developed, and to explore issues related
to their legal effect, form and process.
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Making
Informed Choices: Public Information and the Environment
August 2002
This report includes
research on who generates environmental information, how it is distributed
or made publicly available, and how consumers (and producers) use it. The
research was focused on four subject areas - drinking water quality,
product labels and environmental certification programmes, forest products
certification, and housing/indoor environments.
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Environmental
Standards: Towards Implementation of the Canadian Standards Strategy
August 2002
Pollution Probe's goal
with this study is to provide a preliminary inventory of environmental
standards that exist or are under development in Canada and to review
progress in implementing the Canadian Standards Strategy (CSS) from an
environmental standards point of view. The report also looks ahead to new
imperatives and new opportunities.
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format (260KB)
Environmental
Non-governmental Organization (ENGO) Participation in National Standards
Setting
March
2002
The
objective of this study is to identify ways to enhance the recruitment and
effective involvement of environmental non-governmental organizations
(ENGOs) in standards setting work by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).
The focus of the study is on standards setting by the Canadian Standards
Association (CSA) since the CSA has subject area recognition by the SCC to
work on environmental standards.
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format (210KB)
Applying
the Precautionary Principle to Standard Setting
September
2001
Pollution
Probe is pleased to release this report on implementing the precautionary
principle in Canada. The main objective of this study was to find ways to
integrate the precautionary principle into the risk assessment/risk
management (RA/RM) approach to controlling toxic substances. The related
"precautionary approach" to preventing and controlling exposure
to toxic substances is also described in the report, since it is
integrally linked to the precautionary principle.
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format (399KB)
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The
Future Role of Environmental Standards
March
2000
Pollution Probe's goal with this
study is to explore how to make environmental standards a credible and
effective part of the Canadian environmental policy tool kit, along with
regulations, economic incentives and market-based mechanisms. All of these
tools are interrelated and seldom, if ever, operate in isolation. Gaining
a better understanding of this interaction has been key to coming up with
the practical suggestions for moving ahead that are provided in this
report (66 pages).
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Voluntary
Initiatives: Policy Framework and Roles
Conference Proceedings - June 14 and 15, 1999
October
1999
The objective of this conference
was to identify and discuss the key elements of a policy framework and the
roles of stakeholders in supporting the credible and effective use of
voluntary and non-regulatory initiatives in Canada. Keynote speakers
included Brian Emmett, Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and
Sustainable Development and Elizabeth Dowdeswell, former Executive
Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Breakout groups were
formed to discuss a number of key policy issues, including:
appropriateness, performance, accountability mechanisms, measurement and
reporting, incentives, verification and stakeholder buy-in
(96 pages).
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Toward
Credible and Effective Environmental Voluntary Initiatives: Lessons
Learned
June
1999
The goal of this study is to
propose a government policy framework that will lead to more credible and
effective Voluntary Initiatives. Thirty-nine Canadian Voluntary
Initiatives were studied and screened against twenty-five policy issues
identified in the literature and through consultations with government,
industry and environmental groups. The lessons learned from the Voluntary
Initiatives were used to develop the proposed policy framework (161
pages).
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Emissions
Trading and Public Policy
Conference
Proceedings
July 1998
This conference held June
5 and 6, 1997 in Toronto brought together experts on
existing emissions trading systems in the U.S. with senior Canadian
policy-makers and other interested stakeholders to investigate the
potential benefits and concerns with instituting emissions trading in this
country. Includes five key recommendations for any plan to proceed with
emissions trading (143 pages).
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