A presentation on the Canadian Draft Plan on Climate change. in PDF form
• source: Canada Climate Change Program • See also XlnkS4D9

As a precursor to the development of the final SMS, an SMS Blueprint and Action Plan were initiated in response to issues identified during consultations in the year 2000. The issues were summarized as six strategies and twenty associated action items that are required to address weaknesses or gaps in the performance of APEGBC or its Members with respect to sustainability. The final SMS itself will contain five phases: Commitment, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation and Review.
• source: SMS Progress Report 2002 • See also XlnkS4D7

Do you agree or disagree with the following opinions on the environment? 1. Science and technology will come up with ways to solve environmental damage and pollution (Yes: 60% – No: 40%) 2. Protecting the natural environment is more important to me than creating economic growth and employment Yes: 70% – No: 30%) 3. Individuals have to change their own habits and lifestyles if we are to protect the environment (Yes: 95% – No: 5%)
• source: What do you think? Four key issues analyzed by UBC • See also XlnkS4D6

Question: Of the following environmental issues, which one should be the top priority for government? Answer Reducing greenhouse gas emissions 43% Global warming or climate change 38% Chemicals in our food 29% Spending money to encourage individuals to make sustainable lifestyle choices 28% Loss of old growth forests through logging 27% Genetically altered food 15% State of the global fisheries 13%
• source: What do you think? Four key issues analyzed by UBC • See also XlnkS4D6

Globalization has had profound affects on our lives in this century: Between 1950 and 1998, world exports of goods increased 17-fold — from $311 billion to $5.4 trillion — while the global economy expanded only six-fold. The number of transnational corporations worldwide grew from 7,000 in 1970 to an estimated 53,600 in 1998, with some 449,000 foreign subsidiaries. International tourist arrivals increased 25-fold, from 25 million to 635 million between 1950 and 1998. Some 2 million people now cross an international border each day, compared with only 69,000 in 1950. The number of lines linking non-cellular telephones directly to the global phone network grew eightfold, from 89 million in 1960 to 838 million in 1998.
• source: Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization • See also XlnkS4D5

The globalization of commerce in recent decades has internationalized environmental issues. Common trappings of daily life — a teak coffee table, for instance, or a salmon dinner — are closely linked to the well-being of people and ecosystems on the other side of the world. And international investments are giving millions of people an influence, albeit often unwitting, on environmental developments in distant corners of the planet.
• source: Vanishing Borders: Protecting the Planet in the Age of Globalization • See also XlnkS4D5