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THE GALLON ENVIRONMENT
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CANADA CANADA CANADA CANADA ************************************************************************* NEW BOOK ON ENVIRONMENT, ECONOMICS
AND SOCIETY,
MCGILL UNIVERSITY The book is entitled, "Ethics, Economics and International Relations:
Transparent Sovereignty in the Commonwealth of Life". It is written by Dr. Peter
G. Brown, Director of the McGill School of Environmental Studies, McGill
University, Montreal, published by Edinburgh University Press. Peter Brown tries
to get us beyond traditional economics, even beyond incrementalism where we try
to piecemeal traditional economics with green taxes and other economic
instruments. Brown develops what he calls "Stewardship Economics", an economics
that makes humans one part of the resource base and the web of life. It takes
humans out of the centre where resources and all other life forms are made for
the use and abuse of humans. Here is what Brown says: "Stewardship economics
extends, and may hope to complete, the quest for a general theory by explicitly
locating the human economy in the earth's biophysical systems. It requires
therefore both an accurate description of the economy in those systems and a
normative structure that will allow us to say how these systems should function.
Stewardship economics recognizes the finitude of the earth and its systems."
Brown warns that, "the most pervasive scientific error made by mainstream
economics is that it carries forward, as an unexamined background assumption
that humans are not significant actors in the earth's biophysical systems. In
more economic texts there is no description of any kind of nature.....it is as
if the rest of the physical world did not exist or that humans could not affect
it."
Brown reminds us that, "our concern is with the commonwealth of life: for
its flourishing, including its own, and its restoration." He adds that, "the
thrust of this book is the depiction of a contract between all persons to
respect each other's basic rights, and to extend the contract to all
life." To achieve a stewardship economy that operates within the
commonwealth of life (e.g, the resource rich life-supporting, economy-supporting
ecosystem), Brown states that society has fiduciary responsibilities that
include operating an economy within a "Common Pool Resource" (CPR). The concept
was first developed by Elinor Ostrom and reported in her book "Governing the
Commons". Brown writes, "a common pool resource can be a fishery, a forest, the
Internet, the air, the oceans, the ecological health of a stream, and so on. In
all these cases, and many, many more resources units can be appropriated by
individuals without regard to the health of the system," and states that,
"Ostrom has identified eight characteristics of institutions that are successful
in protecting common pool resources. Markets, private property, and government
may all have roles to play in a successful system." For more information contact
Dr. Peter G. Brown, Director, McGill School of Environment, 3534 University
Ave., Montreal, Quebec H3A 2A7, ph. (514) 398-2827, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit their website at
http://www.mcgill.ca/mse/
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GALLON TO GIVE TALK ON THE
HISTORY OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL
MOVEMENT IN CANADA, PIMLOTT LECTURE Gary Gallon, President of the Canadian
Institute for Business and the Environment (CIBE), will give a talk on "The
History and Economics of Environmentalism in Canada", at the University of
Toronto Lecture Series. The lecture series is held annually by Innis
College in honour of Dr. Douglas Pimlott, the famous Canadian scientist
who specialized in demystifying wolves, their families and their habits.
Co-hosted by Dr. Beth Savan, Director Environmental Studies at Innis College and
Monte Hummel, head of the World Wildlife Fund Canada, the Pimlott Memorial
Lecture will be held Thursday, February 15, 2001, 6:00 pm, at the Town Hall,
Innis College, University of Toronto, 2 Sussex Ave., Toronto, ph. (416)
978-3424, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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****************************************************************** CONCERN EXPRESSED IN EUROPE ABOUT
CANADA'S
ENVIRONMENTAL DECLINE Environment officials in the United States and Europe have been watching in
disbelief as Canada, particularly its Provinces, fall behind on environmental
protection and greenhouse gas emissions reduction. Where Canada was a leader in
the 1970's and the 1980's, it has failed to keep up with world environmental
progress in the 1990's. Much of this came from the massive budget cuts and
senior science and engineering staff cuts in Environment Canada and the
provinces in the mid-1990's. At least Environment Canada has been turned around
with new cash and some staff infusions from the Government of Canada. But
Alberta, Quebec, and Ontario continue to treat environment as an obstacle to
economic development and have relegated environmental protection to the back of
the Cabinet Bus. This environmental backslide in Canada has not gone unseen by
the rest of the world. The Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research (CICERO), based in Oslo, Norway, has just published an article
entitled, "Canada on the Brink: From Frontrunner to Laggard?, and written by
researchers, Jonas Vevatne and Santiago Olmos. They wrote that, "Canada was
lambasted as "Fossil of the Week" at the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP 6)
in The Hague by environmental activists and was accused of attempting to water
down the Kyoto Protocol. At the same time, the election campaigns were underway
in Canada where climate issues were hardly mentioned. What is happening to one
of the most active environmental frontrunners of the 1980's when its Minister of
Environment doesn't even show up to COP 6 ?"
CICERO said that, "Canada was named Fossil of the Week for its efforts to
include existing forests and agriculture in the category of carbon sinks
(absorption of carbon dioxide n forests and land). Canada was criticized
particularly strongly for its demand that export of nuclear energy technology
should be covered by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), so that it could
export nuclear power plants to developing countries as a greenhouse gas
reduction measure.", adding that even, "David Runnalls believes that the
criticism was well deserved." The article cites as one of the reasons for
Canada's decline is the decline in environmental interest by the two large
opposition parties. The Canadian Alliance, the official opposition, and the
Block Quebecois are both more interested in expanding regional powers, not
environmental powers. CICERO quoted David Runnalls, President of Canada's
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) based in Winnipeg,
saying that, "the main opposition party, the Canadian Alliance dedicated only
one sentence to environmental protection in its 23-page program, and has not
formulated any climate policy or position on the Kyoto Protocol. The Liberal
strongly emphasized the possible economic benefits of climate measures but have
nevertheless failed to make the environment an issue in the campaign." The
report stated that, "the strong polarization of the election race has dampened
the parties' willingness to enter into a debate on the environment, and there is
little to indicate that there will be any change in the short run." For more
information contact the Center for International Climate and Environmental
Research (CICERO), Pb. 1129, Blindem, Sognsvelen 68, 0318 Oslo, Norway, ph.
47.22.85.87.50, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] , or [EMAIL PROTECTED] . To
download the full paper go to http://www.cicero.uio.no/cicerone/00/6/Eng/cic6santiago.pdf
. Also see the GCSI article on politics and GHG in Canada http://www.gcsi.ca/risingheat.html
. And see the West Coast Environmental Law Centre's report card on GHG and
Canada at http://www.wcel.org/wcelpub/2000/13244.pdf
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SEMINAR ON MEETING CANADA'S
COMMITMENTS TO
KYOTO PROTOCOL, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY The School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia University's and
the McGill School of Environment will host an evening panel on "Climate Change:
Meeting Canada's Commitments" Wednesday, 14 February 2001, from 6 to 8 pm at the
Concordia University Faculty Club Lounge, 1455 de Maisonneuve, Hall Building
Blvd., Room H767, Montreal, Quebec. The panel will be chaired by Desiree McGraw
of the McGill School of Environment and will include: Jean Charest, leader of
the Quebec Liberal Party and former Environment Minister (Canada); Ted Ferguson
from Canada's Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation Office;
Elizabeth May, Executive Director of the Sierra Club of Canada; and, Frank
Muller, Professor of Environmental Economics, Concordia University and Visiting
Professor, McGill School of Environment . For more information, contact the
Concordia University at ph. 514-848-2575.
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VICTORIA, BRITISH COLUMBIA, TO
HOST
UNEP INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S CONFERENCE IN 2002 Victoria, British Columbia, has been selected as the venue for the fourth
UNEP International Children's Conference on the Environment which will take
place from 22 to 24 May 2002. The Conference will be held at the University of
Victoria and is expected to bring together 800 children (10 to 12 years old)
from over 115 countries, providing them with an opportunity to learn about and
voice their concerns on the state of the environment as well as to showcase
environmental initiatives by schools. The Conference is also expected to produce
a statement from children to the world leaders who will meet in the summer of
2002 in Johannesburg for the World Summit on Sustainable Development.
Among the issues the Conference will focus on are: resource conservation,
climate change and water. "I am very pleased that Canada will host this
important event", said David Anderson, Minister of the Environment for Canada
and current President of UNEP's Governing Council. "There are natural links
between a healthy environment and healthy children. The various experiences,
observations and ideas of the children around the world really bring home to us
their desire for concrete actions to address environmental issues in a tangible
manner." For more information contact Theodore Oben, Programme Officer,
Children Youth and Sport Programmes, UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, tel:
254-2-623262, fax: 623692, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; or Tore J.
Brevik, UNEP Spokesman/Director, Communications and Public Information, tel:
254-2-623292, fax: 623927, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]. See also www.unep.org/children_youth/ .
For Canada, please contact: Anne L. Mathewson, Chair, ICC Canada 2002,
Corporate & Environmental Communications Manager, Tetra Pak Canada Inc.,
Markham, Ontario, tel: 1-905-305-9777, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] . For
Connecticut, please contact: Mr. Tim Love/Joanne Tawfilis, Coalition for
Justice and Community Understanding, Ledyard, Connecticut, tel: 1-860-464-2999,
fax: 1-860-464-2368, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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MINING OPERATIONS IN CANADA RELEASED
2.3 MILLION
POUNDS OF HEAVY METALS IN 1998 The Canadian Environmental Defence Fund (CEDF) in Toronto, said mining
smelters in Canada released more than 2.3 million pounds of heavy metals in
1998, including arsenic, mercury, lead and nickel compounds. These have all
highly poisonous and harmful to people's health and the environment. The fund
said the worst polluter was Inco Ltd., the western world's largest nickel miner,
which released 1.1 million pounds of heavy metal into the environment from its
facilities in Ontario and Manitoba. "Overall, Inco released almost two billion
pounds of sulfur dioxide which causes acid rain," CEDF said. Their report listed
Noranda Inc., Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., a unit of Anglo American
Plc, Falconbridge Ltd. and Cominco Ltd., as major polluters. Mausberg said the
information for the report came from information provided by the mining groups
to a consultant for Environment Canada. Ranked by facility, the fund's report
said Inco's Copper Cliff operation in Sudbury, Ontario, was a major polluter,
followed by Noranda's Horne smelter in Quebec, then Hudson Bay's Flin Flon
smelter in Manitoba, Inco's Thompson operation in Manitoba, Falconbridge's Kidd
Creek facility in Ontario and Cominco's Trail zinc operation in British
Columbia. "We certainly have a strategy in place to spend considerable money to
make considerably more progress in the Sudbury area and out in Thomson, to
address both the sulfur dioxide and the metal emissions," Inco spokesman Jerry
Rogers said. Noranda said it was trying to reduce toxins from Horne by more than
50 percent. The smelter processed 720,000 tonnes of copper concentrates in 1999.
"We are currently working on a program, and have already spent C$60 million, to
reduce those emissions by another 50 percent within the next two, two and a half
years," Noranda spokesman Denis Couture told Reuters. Story by Lesley Wroughton,
Reuters News Service. See the Mining Association of Canada website at http://www.mining.ca/ . Visit the Canadian
Environmental Defense Fund website at http://www.cedf.net/ .
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AMERICANA ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE
AND TRADE SHOW IN MONTREAL, MARCH 28 TO 30, 2001
AMERICANA 2001 is a Pan-American Environmental Technology Trade Show and
Conference that will be held March 28-29-30, 2001 in Montreal Convention Centre
(Quebec) Canada. For its 4th edition, with the theme "Evolving solutions for a
changing world", AMERICANA keeps growing in 2001 expecting 10 000 participants,
400 exhibitors for the Trade Show, 300 guest speakers in different tracks (Air,
Climate Change, Water, Contaminated Sites, Solid Wastes, Environmental
Management, etc.) and 600 business meetings that will be organized for the
International Business Matchmaking Program. AMERICANA 2001 is organized by
RESEAU environnement, the Quebec's largest business association in the
Environmental Industry. For more information contact Americana 2001, 911
Jean-Talon East, # 220, Montreal, Quebec H2R 1V5, Ph. (514) 270-7110, Fax (514)
270-7154. Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Visit their website at http://www.americana.org .
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GORD MILLER, ONTARIO'S ENVIRONMENT
COMMISSIONER TO SPEAK
AT CEIA ONTARIO BUSINESS BREAKFAST Gordon Miller the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario will speak
Thursday, February 15, 2001, 7:30 am at an environment business opportunities
breakfast (EBOB) hosted by the Canadian Environment Industry Association,
Ontario Chapter at the International Plaza Hotel, Ballroom C, 655 Dixon Road,
Toronto, Ontario. A hot breakfast will be served. Expect to join up to 100
environment business representatives at the breakfast. Cost of the breakfast is
$55. To register contact CEIA Ontario, 2175 Sheppard Ave., E., Suite 310,
Toronto, Ontario M2J 1W8, ph. (416) 491-1670, fax (416) 491-1670 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Visit their website at http://www.ceia.on.ca .
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AWMA CONFERENCE ON IMPLEMENTING
CANADA-WIDE STANDARDS
The Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) will sponsor a the
"Implementation of Canada-Wide Standards Conference" March 7 and 8, 2001, at the
Toronto Marriott Eaton Centre. It is cosponsored by Environment Canada and
chaired by Dr. Jane Pagel, Vice-President, Corporate and Government Affairs,
Jacques Whitford Environment Ltd. The keynote speaker will be Barry Stemshorn,
Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Protection Service, Environment Canada.
It will deal with ozone and small diameter particulate, mercury and petroleum
hydrocarbons in soil standards, and dioxins, furans and benzene. The Canada-Wide
Standards are an attempt by the provinces and the Canadian Council of the
Ministers of the Environment (CCME) to take over the standard-setting role of
the federal government. So far the Canada-Wide Standards are late and have
delayed what would have come out of the federal government under the Canadian
Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The Canada-Wide standards are weak and
don't meet standards that are required in the United States, plus they are
unenforceable at the national level since the provinces have been mandated to
enforce each of the Canada-Wide Standards within their own jurisdiction. Quebec,
Ontario and Alberta have so far stripped their environment ministries of
resources and staff that they are not in a position to enforce new standards. In
essence, the provinces would be operating with an unfunded mandate - - they are
required to do it, but don't have the resources to do it. The cost of
participation for non-members is $625.00. For more information contact AWMA, One
Gateway Center, Third Floor, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222, ph. 1-800-270-3444,
or ph. (412) 232-3444, fax (412) 232-3450. Visit the website at http://www.awma.org .
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SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON GREEN
TAXES IN
VANCOUVER, B.C., APRIL 2001 The Second Annual Global Conference on "Environmental Taxation Issues:
Experience and Potential," will be hosted by the Pembina Institute in Vancouver,
British Columbia from April 1st to 3rd, 2001. It is co-sponsored by Cleveland
State University, the BC Institute of Technology, and the Government of British
Columbia. The objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the exchange
of ideas, information and research findings among scholars, executives, tax
professionals, non- governmental organizations and policy makers focussed on
environmental taxation issues, experience and potential throughout the world.
Participants will include professors of taxation, accounting, and finance from
major universities worldwide, tax and accounting professionals from leading CPA
and law firms, executives from industry, members of non-governmental
organizations and officials from governmental bodies throughout the world. The
registration cost is $250 + GST. Contact Aida Burgos, BCIT Venture Development
Centre, 3700 Willingdon Ave., Burnaby, B.C. V5G 3H2, ph. (604) 453-4018, fax
(604) 436-0286, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Download conference
brochure, registration form and call for papers from the website http://www.piad.ab.ca/ , and click on "What's
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Letter to the Editor, Dear Gallon Environment Letter:
The article on Birdwatching as a $25 billion dollar "industry" tells me how out of touch the urban environmental movement is in America. I too enjoy birdwatching. I have been a compiler for 25 years and have several feeders at my home, but to equate birdwatching with the steel industry or the chemical industry, strains the imagination. Explain to me exactly what birdwatching produces? Could we even exist without the steel industry and chemical industry. I am disappointed in your shortsighted logic. Without the agricultural industry the minerals industry and the other basic raw materials industries that make our country great and allow us the standard of living we enjoy... there wouldn't be any time for bird watching. We would be spending 90% of our time seeking shelter and finding food to survive. Let's put a little more thought into your articles. We can enjoy birdwatching and have both a viable steel industry and chemical industry without trashing them. Sincerely, Michael Noel, Farmer/Rancher, email *****************************************************************
Dear Editor,
Instead of just harping on the "What if we had less democracy" vein of
thinking, how about the following, also from USA Today, on the topic of "What if
we had more democracy"?? Thanks, by the way, for including the letters to the
editor in this issue of your newsletter. And you do an incredible job of
pulling together lots of useful environmental news, and I do appreciate
that. (You don't need to add this email address to your mailing list --
Sincerely, Craig Harvey, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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WICKES STORE IN BANGOR, MAINE
BLOCKADED FOR SELLING
INTERFOR, B.C. WOOD PRODUCTS Members of the Student Environmental Action Coalition in Bangor, Maine,
protested in front of the do-it-yourself store hardware store "WICKES" in
Bangor, demanding that the company stop selling old-growth word products from
International Forest Products (Interfor) out of British Columbia. Student
perched atop three tall metal tripods, whiles others chained themselves to the
bases, blocking entrances to the store. Eleven students from College of the
Atlantic and the University of New Hampshire were arrested. "WICKES knows the
history of Interfor Forest Products in the ancient temperate rainforest in
British Columbia, Canada and yet the company still carries Interfor's products,"
said Mike Roselle, Forests Campaigner for Greenpeace, who supported the student
action. "Today's protest is part of a national grass roots uprising across the
United States. Concerned citizens are doing everything in their power to expose
both Interfor's highly destructive practices and the stores that refuse to stop
selling their products," said Roselle. The students maintain that forest
products must come from well-managed forests that have been certified to Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC) standards or better. Many retailers, including home
furnishing giant IKEA, have already pledged to use only forest products that
have been FSC- certified. Although many forestry companies operating in the
Great Bear Rainforest are working with environmental organizations in British
Columbia to protect highly contentious areas within the rainforest, Interfor
walked away from negotiations and has resumed its logging plans, says
Greenpeace. Since then, environmentalists have exposed the company's plans to
log 18 pristine valleys and critically important areas of the Great Bear
Rainforest in the next five years. Contact Rob Fish, Student Environmental
Action Coalition, Bangor, Maine, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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MAPLE LEAF PACKING FACTORY POLLUTES
MANITOBA RIVER
A Maple Leaf Pork plant was built in Brandon, Manitoba, once it promised to
help build and pay for the maintenance of a new Brandon municipal sewage
treatment plant that the Maple Leak Pork plant could use to discharge its
slaughterhouse waste. The u.v. treatment system broke down and a new computer
system installed to run the waste water operations was found to be incompatible
with the rest of the new sewage treatment plant operations. As a result, the
Maple Leaf-assisted sewage plant began discharge large amounts of improperly
treated pork and human waste into the Assiniboine River during a long period in
the Summer of 2000. Downstream water users were not notified of the
pollution. Their drinking water and recreation water were harmed by it,
according to Bill Paton, a Brandon University biologist. He said that farmers
who irrigate strawberries and lettuce with river water should have been told to
take precautions. In June, the amount of fecal coliform discharged into the
river from Maple Leaf waste exceeded the limit in the treatment plant's licence
from Manitoba Conservation. By July, the mean reading was more than six times
the licence limit. Fecal coliforms are bacteria found in the guts of warm-
blooded animals. They are used as an indicator for other disease-causing
organisms that are harder to detect. Swimming is not recommended when fecal
coliform levels are above 200 per 100 millilitres of water. The mean reading for
July 2000 at the end of the Maple Leaf pipe was 1,255, but that would have been
diluted in the river. The strain of E. coli that killed seven people in
Walkerton, Ont., last summer is rarely found in pigs, but Paton sees parallels
to Walkerton in the lack of checks and balances when something goes wrong. The
$12-million sewage treatment plant was built by the City of Brandon as an
incentive for the new slaughterhouse. City staff run the treatment facility,
although Maple Leaf pays the operating expenses. Source, "Downstream warning
urged in wake of pollution surge", By Helen Fallding, Winnipeg Free
Press, Mon, Jan 8, 2001.
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NORTH AMERICAN FISHERIES ECONOMICS
FORUM, TO BE HELD IN
NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 2001 The first North American Fisheries Economics Forum will be held on April 1
to 4, 2001 at the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. The goals
of the Forum are to strengthen communication between North American fisheries
economists in industry, government and academia, and to provide opportunities to
discuss research results, research in process and future research needs and
plans. The keynote theme for the Forum is "The State of North American Fisheries
Economics." Sessions relating to this keynote theme will include discussions on
the future of North American fisheries economics, fisheries economics data,
teaching fisheries economics, and publishing in the area of fisheries economics.
Other special sessions will be held on topics including seafood trade and the
internet, economics of fishing cooperatives under the American Fisheries Act,
bio-economic models and fishery management, measuring efficiency and capacity in
fisheries, economic assessments of marine reserves, catfish economics, and
economics and conflicts between commercial and sport fisheries. Additional
sessions on other topics are under development. The Forum will serve as the
inaugural meeting of the North American Association of Fisheries
Economists. This Association will be affiliated with International
Institute of Fisheries Economics and Trade (IIFET), an international
organization of fisheries economists which meets in even-numbered years in
different countries around the world. The most recent IIFET meeting was held in
Corvallis, Oregon in July 2000, and the next meeting will be in Brisbane,
Australia in July 2002. North American Fisheries Economics Forums will be held
in odd-numbered years in different coastal areas of North America. For
additional information, contact Gunnar Knapp, Program Chair, University of
Alaska Anchorage (telephone 907-786-7717; e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]). The deadline for
submitting abstracts is February 2, 2001. Additional information about the First
North American Fisheries Economics Forum, including lists of sessions and
participants and procedures for submitting abstracts, registering for the Forum
and making hotel reservations, may be found at the website http://www.naafe.uaa.alaska.edu .
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U.S. EMISSIONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES
CONTINUE TO INCREASE:
COAL, OIL AND NATURAL GAS LARGEST SOURCES Total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of the six main greenhouse gases
(weighted to reflect equivalent emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2)), in the
United States rose from 6,689 to 6,748 million metric tons. These gases include
CO2, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur
hexafluoride. The CO2 from fossil fuel combustion at power plants and factories
is the largest source of all greenhouse gases, accounting for 80 percent of all
emissions in 1999. Fossil fuel combustion was responsible for 88 percent of
total greenhouse emission growth from 1990 to 1999. The study also shows that
from 1990 - 1999, GHG emissions from cars, trucks and buses rose 21 percent,
while total highway miles traveled climbed 13 percent. A Federal Register notice
announcing a 40-day public comment period on the report was published Jan. 9,
2001. To receive a hard copy of this document, fax a request to the Agency at
202-260-6405, or write to the following address: U.S. EPA, Office of Atmospheric
Programs, Market Policy Branch (MC: 2175), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20460. For technical information, call Wiley Barbour of EPA's
Office of Air and Radiation at ph. (202) 260-6972. The report is available at http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/publications/emissions.
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U.S. EPA REGION 10 ISSUES RFP ON
PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP AND
RECYCLING The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 is soliciting proposals
for projects that address product stewardship, recycling, source reduction,
reuse, market development, or green purchasing. The amount of the contracts
could range from US$10,000 to $20,000. Grants or cooperative agreements will be
awarded though Solid Waste Assistance Funds (SWAF) under the authority of
Section 8001 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. Goals
EPA Region 10 seeks to fund proposals that fit into one or more of the following
categories: Promote education and outreach on source reduction, product
stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled products
Identify and test strategies that lead to improved environmental performance by
Region 10 business organizations. Provide technical assistance or spur
innovative technology development to promote source reduction, product
stewardship, reuse, recycling, composting, and/or buying recycled products.
Stimulate market development for materials that are difficult to recycle, such
as construction and demolition debris, electronics, tires, etc. Incorporate EPA
initiatives (e.g., community-based environmental protection, environmental
justice, extended product responsibility, sustainability, protecting children's
health from environmental threats) with source reduction, product stewardship,
reuse, recycling, composting, and/or recycled product procurement projects. EPA
Region 10 includes the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington and the lands
in Indian country belonging to federally recognized tribes in those states.
Matching funds are not required under this solicitation. All matching funds or
other contributions provided by the grantee are subject to audits and all
federal regulations. Written proposals should be submitted on double-sided
recycled paper with a minimum of 30% post-consumer content. The proposal process
relies extensively on direct communication (in person or by phone, fax or
electronic mail) with the EPA Region 10 contact. For this solicitation please
contact Domenic Calabro at ph. (206) 553-6640 or by e-mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED]. The deadline
for application is February 15, 2001, when a two-page pre-proposals should be
received by the EPA. Applicants are encouraged to contact an EPA Region 10
representative prior to submitting their pre-proposal. Contact Domenic Calabro
at ph. 206-553- 6640 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED]. This
solicitation and additional EPA Region 10 Solid Waste Program funding
information are available on the Internet at the website http://www.epa.gov/r10earth/productstewardship.htm
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GREENING INDUSTRY CONFERENCE ON
GLOBALIZATION AND
COMPETITIVENESS WAS HELD IN BANGKOK, JANUARY 2001 The Greening of Industry Network (GIN) held its annual conference on
"Sustainablity at the Millennium: Globalization, Competitiveness, and the Public
Trust", January 21-24, 2001, in Bangkok, Thailand. It was the 9th International
Conference of the Greening of Industry Network The Honorary Conference Chair was
Dr. Supachai Panitchapakdi, Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister and
Director-General Designate of the World Trade Organization. The co-chair was Jan
Pronk, Minister of Environment of the Netherlands. The four-day conference
featured more than 150 presentations in plenary sessions, workshops,
exhibitions, posters, discussion and debate, delegates from business, government
and research will explore that latest research, business strategies, policies
and case studies on cross-cutting issues of industrial development, environment
and society. They pursued the issue of transition "From Environment to
Sustainability". The conference started with sessions on Fair Globalization
Policy, Doctoral Research Workshops, and a meeting of the Environmental
Management Accounting Network.
This convening marks the first international GIN conference in Asia, and we
will use the occasion to launch the Second Decade of the Greening of Industry
Network. The conference program is posted at http://www.eric.chula.ac.th/GIN-Asia/.
Conference sponsors include Chulalongkorn University, Thailand Ministry of
Science, Technology and Environment, United States-Asia Environmental
Partnership, Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the
Environment, Asian Development Bank, United Nations Environment Programme,
European Community, Regional Institute of Environment Technology - Singapore,
Ford Motor Company, Kenan Institute Asia, International Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change - Industrial Transformation, New Jersey Institute of
Technology. See http://www.eric.chula.ac.th/GIN-Asia/sponsors.html
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