OECD Environmental Performance Reviews

ISSN :
1990-0090 (online)
ISSN :
1990-0104 (print)
DOI :
10.1787/19900090
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OECD Environmental Performance Reviews provide independent assessments of countries’ progress in achieving domestic and international environmental policy commitments and goals, together with policy-relevant recommendations.  They address the management of air, water, waste, biodiversity, and land; they examine the relationship between economic and social policy and the environment; and they describe the subject country’s international co-operation in such areas as climate change, marine pollution and development co-operation.  Each report includes a broad range of economic and environmental statistical data. On average, five or six countries are reviewed each year.

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OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Canada 2004

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Authors:
OECD
Publication Date :
29 Sep 2004
Pages :
232
ISBN :
9789264107786 (PDF) ; 9789264107762 (print)
DOI :
10.1787/9789264107786-en

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OECD's comprehensive 2004 report on Canada's environmental policies and programmes systematically examines policy related to air, water, and nature/biodiversity as well as the interface between environmental policy and economic policy, social policy, and specific sectors.  It finds that while Canada has made satisfactory progress since 1985, there are still significant challenges, and the report makes specific recommendations for more use of economic instruments and use of the polluter and user pays principles, rationalising water governance, strengthening nature protection, reducing energy intensity, implementing climate change policies, reviewing environmentally related taxes, and implementing marine and aid commitments.
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  • Conclusions and Recommendations

    The Canadian economy grew by 39% overall between 1990 and 2002 (despite an economic slowdown, along with the global downturn in 2001) while the population increased by 13% to reach 31 million today. GDP per capita is among the highest in the OECD area. With trade liberalisation Canada’s economy has become more export-oriented and more closely linked to the economy of the United States; the US now accounts for three-quarters of Canadian exports and two-thirds of its imports. Natural resources continue to make an important contribution to Canada’s economy. Agriculture, forestry and fishing represent 13.6% of GDP. Canada accounts for about 40% of world exports of softwood ...

  • Air Management

    Effects of acid rain in eastern Canada; Smog in urban areas; Energy intensity and liberalisation of the electricity market; Curbing pollution from road transport

  • Water Management

    Objectives: the provincial water strategies; The Great Lakes; The challenge of providing safe drinking water in urban and rural areas; The need for full-cost pricing of water services; Harmonising water management across multiple jurisdictions; Sustainable development in the Fraser River Basin

  • Nature and Biodiversity Management

    Species at risk; Protecting terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems; Forest management; International co-operation

  • Environmental-Economic Interface

    The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development; Federal sustainable development strategies at sectoral level; Market-based integration; Environmentally harmful subsidies; Evolution of the mix of policy instruments; The role of industry

  • Environmental-Social Interface

    Health impacts of environmental pollution; Natural disasters and environmental emergency management; The environmental industry and environmental jobs; Aboriginal communities’ rights to land, resources and self-government; The North: contaminants and environmental and social impacts; Environmental data and indicators

  • Sectoral Integration

    How to tackle the thousands of non-assessed chemicals; Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances; New chemicals, existing chemicals and pesticides; Chemical risk assessment and management

  • International Co-Operation

    Commitment to international environmental co-operation; Bilateral environmental co-operation with the US; Kyoto Protocol ratification; Fish stocks at risk

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