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Sustainable development a huge failure in Canada: audit
Ottawa (AFP) Oct 30, 2007 A decade-old plan to introduce sustainable development strategies and green thinking into the Canadian government's daily work has failed miserably, the environment commissioner said Tuesday. The 1997 plan "to encourage government departments to green their policies and programs" has become a "major disappointment," said environment commissioner Ron Thompson, releasing his annual audit. "We have found little evidence that the strategies have encouraged departments to integrate protection of the environment with economic and social issues in a substantive or meaningful way," he said. The sustainability idea emerged in a series of international meetings and reports during the 1970s and 1980s that promoted the idea of environmental protection in the self-interest of the human species. These eventually led to two statements of principle and a global agenda on sustainable development at the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. While noting that economic development cannot stop, heads and senior officials from 179 countries at the UN talks agreed it must change course to fit within the planet's ecological limits. In Canada, federal bureaucrats were expected to consider environmental protection on par with economic and social issues when developing policy proposals or managing activities of the day. "Unfortunately, the ambition and momentum that existed in the early stages of sustainable development strategies has faded," Thompson said. The government has said it would review the findings and order fixes by October 2008. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links Powering The World in the 21st Century at Energy-Daily.com
Singapore launches fund to for clean energy research
Singapore (AFP) Oct 30, 2007The government said Tuesday it has earmarked 50 million Singapore dollars (34.5 million US) to fund research on clean energy, such as solar power, over the next five years. |
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