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What's behind each button on the navigation bar at the top of each page or on the menu bar at the left of each page? See below.
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The same page in French. |
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| Contact Us |
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All the ways to get in touch with the SDinfo manager if you have comments or queries about the site. |
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| Search |
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The means to search the entire SDinfo site. Contains Tips for searching. |
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| Canada Site |
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A link to the Government of Canada Web site. |
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| SD news |
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Information, updated weekly, on sustainable development activities and issues. The news archives can be viewed by month or searched using the Search page. |
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| Links |
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Links, categorized by subject, to other sites pertaining to sustainable development. |
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| Just for kids |
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Links to sites on sustainable development issues designed for children and young people. |
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| Site map |
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A map of the site including a list of all the links on each page. |
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| Home |
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The first page of SDinfo. |
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- What is sustainable development?
- Defines the term "sustainable development" and explains its objectives in the context of planning and decision making. Outlines the role of Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development with respect to federal departments and agencies. Provides an annotated illustration of Canada's evolution toward sustainable development.
- Historical path
- An annotated illustration of Canada's evolution toward sustainable development.
- Federal SD resources
- Explains the evolution of the approach taken by the Government of Canada in developing departmental/agency sustainable development strategies including key reference documents and links to the strategies. Covers the reporting done by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development on how these strategies are being implemented. Canada's reports to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development on a range of sectoral and cross-sectoral issues are included.
- Agenda 21
- Gives the background for Agenda 21 and describes the role of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development with respect to Agenda 21.
- International conventions/protocols/agreements
- Briefly introduces the major conventions, protocols, and agreements signed at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992: Agenda 21, the Convention on Biological Diversity, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, and the Forest Principles. The Kyoto Protocol signed later is included.
- International institutions
- Lists major governmental and nongovernmental institutions concerned with sustainable development with a brief description of each and a link to its Web page when available.
- The green consumer
- Addresses consumption issues, focusing on how individual efforts can make a difference in reducing consumption. [Under development.]
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