Reports
What's Inside? That Counts: A survey of toxic ingredients in our cosmetics
Earlier this year, the David Suzuki Foundation invited Canadians to pull back the shower curtain and participate in an online survey about toxic ingredients in common personal care products like soaps, shampoos and cosmetics. This report summarizes key findings from the survey and presents recommendations for cleaning up these products... More »
On the Edge: British Columbia's Unprotected Transboundary Species
British Columbia has the highest number of species of any province in Canada, but these species are showing alarming signs of distress. According to the B.C. Conservation Data Centre at least 1,918 species or distinct populations of wildlife in British Columbia are now at risk,1 and significant portions of some... More »
Setting the Stage for a Sustainable Energy Strategy: Canada's Necessary Opportunity
This paper will begin to explore how the Trottier Energy Futures Project is defining the challenge and immense opportunity of designing and implementing a Canadian sustainable energy strategy. More »
The Maple Leaf in the OECD
The study rates the record of 25 developed countries belonging to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development using 28 environmental indicators. The most recent environmental data from the OECD, in which Canada is a member, was used to formulate the results. Canada currently ranks 24th but the study proves... More »
A grizzly challenge: Ensuring a future for Alberta's threatened grizzlies
Co-published by the David Suzuki Foundation, this report analyzes current recovery efforts in Alberta, concluding that the provincial government is not doing enough to protect one of the most threatened grizzly bear populations in North America. Written by Jeff Gailus, M.Sc., for the Alberta Wilderness Association, the Canadian Parks and... More »
Ensuring a future for Canada's grizzly bears: A report on the sustainability of the trophy hunt in B.C.
This report examines the recent history of grizzly management in B.C. and in particular, grizzly mortalities resulting from the legal hunt of this species, both within and outside of parks and protected areas. More »
Conservation Value of the North American Boreal Forest from an Ethnobotanical Perspective
Traditional knowledge held by Canada's Aboriginal people about the Boreal Forest offers western scientists a vitally important information source. With the Boreal Forest facing increasing threats from climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, and invasive species, this knowledge is more important than ever. More »
Climate scorecard for the 2010 winter games
The 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver raised the bar for climate action, including energy efficient venues, the use of clean energy sources, and by promoting the use of public transit. Of course, there is still lots of room for improvement, as noted in our climate scorecard for the Vancouver Olympics.... More »
A New Climate for Conservation: Nature, Carbon and Climate Change in British Columbia
A New Climate for Conservation explores the role of nature conservation in a climate action strategy for ecological adaptation and ecological mitigation. More »
Managing BC's Forests for a Cooler Planet: Carbon Storage, Sustainable Jobs and Conservation
Forest industry unions and environmental organizations are united in their belief that B.C. must manage its forest more wisely. Forests provide a major hedge against climate change because they absorb and store carbon that would otherwise end up in the atmosphere. This report calls for a number of measures, including increased conservation; a new approach to calculating logging rates that takes into account carbon storage; reducing waste; better tree-planting methods; and a cautious approach to wood-fired bioenergy. More »
Climate Leadership, Economic Prosperity
This report shows that with strong federal and provincial government policies, Canada can meet the 2°C emissions target in 2020 and still have a strong growing economy, a quality of life higher than Canadians enjoy today, and continued steady job creation across the country. The analysis also shows that the federal government needs to implement far stronger policies than it has proposed to date to meet its current GHG target. More »
Exploration of two Canadian greenhouse gas emissions targets: 25% below 1990 and 20% below 2006 levels by 2020
The David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute, with the financial support of the TD Bank, decided to seek some credible answers to a set of important questions that have left a substantial gap in the Canadian climate/economy policy debate. The leading economic modelling firm of Mark Jaccard and Associates was retained and an advisory committee comprising senior bank economists, federal government and NRTEE officials, and others helped guide the study. Ultimately, the analysis brought forth credible and conclusive answers to how Canada's economy would fare in the face of a science-based emission reduction target by 2020 . More »
