Half of World’s Natural Heritage Sites Are Under Threat
A chilling report recently released by WWF (formerly World Wildlife Fund) has found that nearly half of the world’s UNESCO-designated natural World Heritage Sites are threatened by industrial activities including oil, gas, and mineral extraction, overfishing, and illegal logging. Sadly, some…
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In Changing Currents: Water Sustainability and the Future of Canada’s Natural Resources Sector, the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) concluded that Canada’s structures for management and governance of water resources weren’t equipped for what the report called a…
View the post titled NRTEE releases new report on sustainable water useCumulative effects in approvals
Cumulative effects are extremely hard to manage in any approval process. By definition, the person or project seeking an individual approval does not usually control the other sources of cumulative impact. Nor is the necessary information about the other actual or potential impacts usually b…
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