Translation of "Advisory Group on Environmental Emergencies " (English → French) :

The federal government, in concert with the Canadian Environmental Network, established a Regulatory Advisory Committee that consisted of some government members from departments that were directly impacted, as well as environmental groups across Canada.

Depending on the service or product concerned, such factors could, for instance, include conditions of delivery and payment, aspects of after-sale service (e.g. extent of advisory and replacement services) or environmental or social aspects (e.g. whether books were stamped on recycled paper or paper from sustainable timber, the cost imputed to environmental externalities or whether the social integration of disadvantaged persons or members of vulnerable groups amongst the persons ...[+++] assigned to performing the contract has been furthered).

99. Calls on the Commission and the EIB Group to design innovative, joint-budget financing instruments for investments supporting biodiversity, and on the EIB Group to provide related technical and financial advisory services that are consistent with the Bank's environmental performance standards;

Question No. 140 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to development of the oil sands, its impacts on the environment and surrounding communities, and the economic effects of these impacts: (a) what, if any, steps has the government taken to establish air emission limits or air quality standards to achieve the World Health Organization’s Air Quality Guidelines to protect air quality and human health; (b) what, if any, steps has the government’s sector-by-sector approach taken to regulate carbon emissions in the oil sands to ensure the oil sands industry makes appropriate reductions in its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to contribute to Canada’s GHG emission reduction goal of 17% below the 2005 level; (c) what, if any, studies has the governmen ...[+++]t undertaken to examine the effect of the oil sands expansion on (i) GHG emissions, (ii) Canada’s ability to meet its GHG emission reduction goals, (iii) Canada’s contribution to the goal of staying below a 2°C increase in global average surface temperature, relative to the pre-industrial level, as articulated at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila, Italy and at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations through the Copenhagen Accord in December 2009 and the Cancun Agreements in December 2010, (iv) the full suite of sustainability criteria, including environmental, economic and social sustainability, and (v) what were the results of any studies identified in (c)(i), (c)(ii), (c)(iii), and (c)(iv); (d) what, if any, studies has the government undertaken to examine (i) the scope of oil sands expansion if the oil sands sector is not required to deliver its proportional share of GHG reductions, (ii) the impacts such a decision would have on other sectors’ allowable GHG emissions, (iii) whether other sectors of the Canadian economy would have to do more than their proportional share to reduce emissions, (iv) what were the results of any studies identified in (d)(i), (d)(ii), and (d)(iii); (e) what, if any, studies ...

I am a family physician practising in Ottawa and I am the Pollution Advisory Officer for Environmental Defence, a national environmental group that works on a broad range of environmental issues including toxic substances, wildlife species and zoning.

The four main priorities in the programme under RETEX for Thuringia break down into the following measures: (1) Transfer of technology and introduction of new technologies: This includes the improvement of the know-how base of individual enterprises, the formation of voluntary joint-interest groupings and cooperation projects (2) Enhancing skills This covers schemes for further training, widening skills and retraining and, in particular, qualifications in environmental issues (3 ...[+++]) Environmental and rehabilitation schemes: This concerns particularly the reduction of pollution and nuisance by businesses and the rehabilitation of industrial waste land (4) Advisory services: Assistance will be given to training advisors and advisory teams for small businesses which are to support them, for example, in drawing up modernization plans.