EC’s Sector Sustainability Tables

For more information, visit Environment Canada’s Sector Sustainability Tables (SSTs) website.

RCEN ENGO SSTs Meeting March 2006

	Minutes - ENGO SST Meeting, March 2, 2006
	Minutes - ENGO SST Meeting, March 3, 2006

November Update on the Sector Sustainability Tables
	Click here for an update on processes for the General SST, the Forest SST, the Mining SST, the Energy SST, the Chemical SST and the Cross-cutting SST
Conference Calls with Environment Canada & RCEN Members
	Cassie Doyle’s Powerpoint presentation on EC’s Transformation
	Minutes of November 16th, 2005 Teleconference with EC and RCEN Members

Documentation available:

	Compendium of International Environmental Agreements, Third Edition (2002), (as requested by the ENGOs at the ENGO Forum on the Design of the SSTs)
	Summary of the Forest Sector Sustainability Table Design Team Meeting
	Mining Sector Sustainability Table Inaugural Meeting Report
	Launching the Sector Sustainability Tables, Discussion Paper from Environment Canada
	Chemical and Allied Industries Group Proposal for Chemical Sector Sustainability Table, July 2005, PowerPoint (PDF Version)
	Environment Canada PowerPoint Presentation 'Launching the Sector Sustainability Tables' (PDF Version)
	ENGO Forum on Design of the Framework for EC’s Sector Sustainability Tables
	Meeting with Samy Watson, Deputy Minister, Environment Canada Report Back - ENGO Forum on Design of the Framework for EC’s Sector Sustainability Tables
	Report Back –ENGO Forum on Sustainability Tables
	The draft of Sector Sustainability Tables: Smart Regulations and Beyond Discussion
	A Competitiveness and Environmental Sustainability Framework
	Working Towards a Sector Sustainability Table
	Energy Environment Sustainability Table - Proposal to the Government of Canada
	Draft Discussion Paper - Proposing a Forest Sector Sustainability Table
	Chemical Sector Sustainability Table

Summary on the Development of SSTs

Environment Canada is undergoing a fundamental change in their approach to the environment. They are in discussions over their new Competitiveness and Environmental Sustainability Framework (CESF), which is meant to strengthen Canada's long-term economic competitiveness, natural environment and well-being of its citizens.

One mechanism through which they plan to implement the new Framework is Sector Sustainability Tables. It is described as a permanent forum for collaboration between federal/provincial/territorial governments and industry, Aboriginal organizations and non-governmental organizations. The Sector Tables are intended to identify how to meet the goals of the Framework through jointly developed, long-term planning. Early sectors to be addressed through the Tables will include: forestry, mining, energy, and chemicals. The first Sector Table (forestry) is expected to commence in late Spring 2005.

ENGO concern over the absence of wide consultation with the ENGO community on the Framework and on the structure of the Tables in particular, has spawned an opportunity about 40 of Canada's ENGOs, including environmental health groups, to participate in an ENGO Forum to discuss the CESF and the design of the framework for the Sector Tables. The Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) is overseeing the organization of this Forum. Delegate selection criteria includes: geographic, gender and language balance; diversity of knowledge / expertise and approach; group size and scope; and experience in the ENGO community and with government consultation. The Forum will produce a report of recommendations to EC, which will be presented to the Deputy Minister on January 18th.

After the Forum, the CEN will create an on-line tool to allow comments and exchange of information from the broader ENGO community. Comments received through this mechanism will be formulated into a second report for EC. Notification of the availability of the on-line tool will be posted in the CEN Weekly E-Bulletin.

The selected ENGO Delegates to ENGO Forum on Designing Sector Sustainability Tables:

• Ken Maybee, New Brunswick Lung Association
• Sheila Cole, Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia
• Therese Hutchinson, Occupational Health Clinic for Ontario Workers
• Paul Muldoon, CELA, ON
• Mark Winfield, Pembina Institute, ON
• Marlo Raynolds, Pembina Institute, AB
• Steve Rison, Dawson Creek Citizens Advisory for Environmental Research, BC
• Dave Martin, Greenpeace, ON
• Stephan Barg, Int'l Institute for Sustainable Development, MB
• Rick Findlay, Pollution Probe, ON
• Rick Smith, Environmental Defence Canada, ON
• Angela Griffiths, Friends of the Earth, BC
• John Bennett, Climate Action Network, ON
• Joan Kuyek, Mining Watch Canada, ON
• David Hocking, David Suzuki Foundation, BC
• Martin von Mirbach, Sierra Club of Canada,ON
• Julie Gelfand, Nature Canada, ON
• Dave Bennett, Canadian Labour Congress, ON
• Jean Arnold, Falls Brook Centre, NB
• Derek Stack, Great Lakes United QC,ON
• Martha Kostuch, Friends of the Oldman River, Prairie Acid Rain Coalition, AB
• Laura MacPherson, Youth Environment Network, PEI
• Geneva Guerin, Sierra Youth Coalition QC,ON
• Anna Tilman, STORM Coalition, ON
• Dave Campbell, Under the Sleeping Buffalo Research, AB
• Mike Simpson, One Sky, BC
• Marc Turgeon, Centre québécois du droit de l'environnement, QC
• Louis Bélanger, Union Québécoise pour la conservation de la nature, QC
• Sidney Ribaux, Équiterre, QC
• Luc Parlavecchio Environnement Jeunesse,QC
• Pierre Lussier, Corporation Saint-Laurent / Jour de la Terre Québec, QC
• Bruce Walker, STOP, QC
• Dave Jones, Yukon Conservation Society, Territories
• Gregory Heming, Environmental Education Association of the Yukon, Territories
• Laura Jackson, Protected Areas Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, Nfld
• Catherine Boyd, Sierra Club of Canada, Nfld
• Hart Haidn, Canadian Centre For Sustainable Agriculture, SK
• Marc Loiselle, Organic Agriculture Protection Fund, SK
• Randall McQuaker Resource Conservation Manitoba, MB
• Jean Cinq-Mars, Wildlife Habitat Canada, ON
• Gino Lévesque, Comité de valorisation de la rivière Beauport, QC
• André Belisle, AQLPA, QC
• Alison Woodley, Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, ON

For more information, please contact Sarah Heiberg at (613) 728-9810 ext. 224 or Leela Ramachandran at (613) 728-9810 ext. 223.