National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy

Changing Currents: Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada's Natural Resource Sectors
The world’s supply of freshwater is limited and finite. While Canada is blessed with an abundance of freshwater, an expected increase in the development of the natural resource sectors begs the question of whether our country has enough to support economic growth while also maintaining the health of our ecosystems.
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Measuring Up: Benchmarking Canada's Competitiveness in a Low-Carbon World
Measuring Up is the first in the Climate Prosperity series of reports the NRTEE will issue examining how Canada can prosper through the economic risks and opportunities of climate change as part of this global low-carbon transition. Measuring Up sets the scene for us. It creates Canada’s first-ever Low-Carbon Performance Index (LCPI) so we can begin to compare where we stand against our main competitors.
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Progress Through Process: Achieving Sustainable Development Together
Today, tough, long-term issues such as climate change, water management, clean energy and more require new collaborative engagement processes if we are to truly make progress. That's why two of Canada's leading national public policy organizations - the NRTEE and the Public Policy Forum - collaborated to examine how we could reinvigorate our governance processes to make real progress on sustainable development.
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True North: Adapting Infrastructure to Climate Change in Northern Canada
Canada's North is on the frontline of climate change. Nowhere else are the effects and stakes of failing to adapt to climate change so high. An already unique and vulnerable environment faces new and different risks associated with melting sea ice, degrading permafrost, and shifting weather patterns. Securing Canada’s Arctic environment in the face of looming climate change is fast becoming a national and an international priority.
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Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada - Outreach Report
In spring and summer of 2009, the NRTEE held outreach sessions in five Canadian cities on Achieving 2050. This report highlights the key outcomes from the sessions, including common areas of agreement and divergence and specific issues participants felt the federal government needed to be aware of when moving toward a unified national cap-and-trade system.
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Charting a Path: Water and Canada's Natural Resource Sector (workshop report)
The NRTEE brought together 45 experts from aross Canada to discuss key issues within the water, natural resources, and climate change interface, to help shape and refine the NRTEE's program on Water and Canada's Natural Resource Sector.
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Achieving 2050: A Carbon Pricing Policy for Canada
The NRTEE releases report advising the federal government to move quickly to implement a unified national carbon pricing policy across Canada
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Geared for Change: Energy Efficiency in Canada's Commercial Building Sector
Canada’s commercial building sector can achieve significant GHG emission reductions through new energy efficiency measures.
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NRTEE 1988-2008
Recognizing 20 years of contribution to sustainable development in Canada
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NRTEE's 2010 KPIA Response
The NRTEE's fourth Response to its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol Implementation Act (KPIA) with respect to the government’s 2010 Climate Change Plan and Statement.
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