Ottawa
needs to straighten out its tax and spending approach if Canada
is to have healthy, wealthy cities
(Winnipeg Free Press)
Our
cities are needlessly suffering environmental decline that has a
direct bearing on quality of life and wealth creation – in
good part because of Ottawa’s unfocussed approach to taxing
and spending. That’s the message of a report being released
today in Winnipeg at the annual conference of the Federation of
Canadian Municipalities.
Ottawa’s
influence on our cities’ development is largely unintentional
and often runs counter to sustainability objectives. The result
is misdirected government resources and programs that often under-perform.
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Let’s
stop the fiction - GDP is not enough: Canada needs to adopt natural
capital indicators to monitor the economy’s ecological foundations
Until
today, Canada’s decision-makers had no way of measuring whether
we have adequate ecological resources to maintain our current level
of economic activity and prosperity into the future.
Because
we haven’t kept track of our ecological resources, we don’t
know if we are running down our stocks of this “natural capital”
to the detriment of future generations’ prosperity.
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"An
environment to stimulate and sustain innovation"
A
Submission on the Innovation Strategy
In
February 2002, the federal government released two policy papers,
Achieving Excellence and Knowledge Matters, which outlined Canada's
Innovation Strategy. The
main point of this paper is that the Innovation Strategy, to achieve
its economic objectives, must incorporate environmental objectives.
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The
Way Forward -Integrating the Environment and the Economy
By
David J. McGuinty, President and CEO, NRTEE
Ten
years have passed since more than 170 countries agreed upon a blueprint
for sustainable development called Agenda 21 at the Rio Earth Summit.
The approach taken by the National Round Table on the Environment
and the Economy (NRTEE) - an independent advisory agency to the
Canadian Prime Minister on how to achieve sustainable development
- has been to view sustainable development as a direction rather
than a destination, as a 100,000-piece jigsaw puzzle with no picture
on the box to guide assembly.
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Brave
New Economics: Hold all the Earth Summits you want, we'll never
achieve sustainable development without developing new economics
that value natural capital
By
David J. McGuinty, President and CEO, NRTEE
The
Prime Minister is being congratulated for his twin announcements
at the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Johannesburg.
Putting the Kyoto climate change agreement to a Parliamentary ratification
vote and establishing 15 new national parks indeed establishes an
environmental legacy.
As
important as they are, the real legacy may be less in the two initiatives
themselves than in what they represent - which is no less than the
beginning of a brave new era in which we value nature and call it
by its true economic name: natural capital.
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ADDITIONAL
ARTICLES
Innovation
for the Environment: A Trillion Dollar Market
(The
Hill Times, Ottawa, Ontario, March 17, 2003)
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Brownfields:
bounty from a $7-billion blue box
(The
Globe and Mail, February 11, 2003)
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It’s
the environment, stupid: Canada can’t afford
ecological deficit
News:
climate change actually oozes with opportunity to harness market
forces through emissions trading
(The
Hill Times, Ottawa, Ontario, September 23, 2002)
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Overdraft
at the Nature Bank
Earth
summits won’t achieve sustainable development. We need to
start a real accounting for the use of natural capital, says David
McGuinty.
(The
Globe and Mail, September 4, 2002)
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Infrastructure
spending goes to heart of our country
Ottawa’s
already helping to refurbish Main Street, now all three orders of
government have to work together.
(The
Hill Times, July 22, 2002)
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Cash-starved
cities unable to compete: Canadian cities don’t have the same
powers to raise revenues that their competitors in the U.S. and
Europe enjoy
(The
Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario, February 25, 2002)
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Urban
Salvation through Sensible Taxation
(Municipal
World, February 2002)
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Climate
Change: Treatment is affordable
Buying
in: Today, corporations meet to talk about trading up to a healthier
world by swapping emissions credits. Let’s encourage them,
says David McGuinty
(The
Globe and Mail, January 29, 2002)
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Society
must preserve, wisely use natural capital
(Winnipeg Free Press, November 7, 2001)
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It
isn't cheap, and it ain't easy
“We’ll have to work harder and spend more to guarantee
safe water for the future”
(The
Telegram, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador - August 22,
2001)
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Role
for privatization in achieving safe water
(Saskatoon
Star Phoenix, August 17, 2001)
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article
If
we build it, what will come?
Any
northern natural gas pipeline must be balanced by investment in
the regulatory system and the people, says environmental specialist
David McGuinty
(The
Globe and Mail, July 25, 2001)
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Aborriginal
people looking for balance
Northern projects must include
roles for local residents
(Edmonton
Journal, June 4, 2001)
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We
can’t hide behind sunscreen
Paul Martin is right, the
GDP doesn’t adequately reflect reality, says economist David
McGuinty.We’re forgetting about the environment.
(The
Globe and Mail, May 25, 2001)
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If
we want clean water, we must pay for it
(The
Toronto Star, Toronto, Ontario, August 13, 2001)
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Carbon
Trading
Unleashing market forces to battle climate change –
at a discount.
(Green
Machine Magazine)
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