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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 New".
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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
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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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