Reports
Returning Salmon: Integrated planning and the Wild Salmon Policy of B.C.
This report evaluates implementation of the Wild Salmon Policy and looks at how other federal and provincial government initiatives, such as the Great Bear Rainforest Agreement and Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA) planning process, can be brought together. More »
Tomorrow Today: How Canada can make a world of difference
Tomorrow Today: How Canada can make a world of difference, issued by the country's 11 largest environmental and conservation organizations offers practical directions for addressing the number one concern for Canadians — the state of the environment. The groups' recommendations centre on climate change, energy use, food production, toxic substances, water, forests and oceans. More »
Marine Protected Areas Progress Report Card
The Living Oceans Society, David Suzuki Foundation and Sierra Club British Columbia have produced this progress report card to assess Canada's performance in meeting its national and international commitments to establish a global network of Marine Protected Areas by 2012. The performances of classmates Australia and the United States were assessed to provide a comparison. In light of the poor grades Canada received, specific steps have been recommended outlining how and where Canada needs improvement in order to get a passing grade by 2012. More »
Fish Farms Drive Wild Salmon Toward Local Extinction
This is a summary of Declining wild salmon populations in relation to parasites from farm salmon, a study conducted by a team of biologists, fisheries scientists, and mathematicians from Dalhousie University and the University of Alberta and published in the peer-reviewed journal _Science_ in December 2007. It investigates the impacts of sea lice from fish farms on wild salmon abundance. More »
Hot properties: How global warming could transform B.C.'s real estate sector
Hot Properties was commissioned by the Real Estate Institute of British Columbia (REIBC) to provide an analysis of how global warming will affect B.C.'s real estate sector. More »
Canada's Polar Bear: Falling through the Cracks?
Canada's Polar Bear: Falling through the Cracks details the status of polar bears in Canada, the threats they face, the efficacy of federal, provincial and territorial legislation to protect the polar bear, and need for new protected areas in polar bear habitat. More »
Dragging Our Assets: Toward an Ecosystem Approach to Bottom Trawling in Canada
Dragging Our Assets: Toward an Ecosystem Approach to Bottom Trawling in Canada, by David Suzuki Foundation sustainable fisheries analyst Scott Wallace, offers recommendations to reduce the ecological impact of bottom trawling while still maintaining access to fisheries resources. More »
Prescription for a Healthy Canada: Towards a National Environment Health Strategy
This report examines key environmental health issues in Canada, assesses shortcomings in Canadian environmental policy in these areas, and considers innovative approaches in other jurisdictions. The David Suzuki Foundation recommends that Canada develop and implement a national strategy to ensure coordinated, effective, and timely action to address environmental health concerns. More »
Northern Exposure: Acute Pesticide Poisonings in Canada
Northern Exposure counts the thousands of Canadians that have suffered from acute poisoning from pesticides. The report is a wake-up call to federal and provincial governments to take action to protect Canadians from the dangers of pesticides. More »
Rich Wildlife, Poor Protection: The urgent need for strong legal protection of British Columbia's biodiversity
Rich Wildlife, Poor Protection investigates 3,672 native and regularly occurring terrestrial and freshwater species and subspecies in B.C. This is the first Canadian study to report endangerment below the species level. More »
Toward a National Sustainable Development Strategy for Canada: Putting Canada on the Path to Sustainability within a Generation
According to several recent studies, Canada has among the worst environmental record of any developed country, ranking 28th out of 30 OECD countries. Without changes, Canada risks continuing deterioration of its environment, human health, quality of life, and international reputation. This report begins with an overview of sustainable development planning in Canada and evaluates this against international best practices. It also includes a draft of the proposed National Sustainability Act. More »
Switch Green: Energy Star Appliance Feebate
This 38-page report explains how the government could reduce energy consumption by offering consumer rebates on Energy Star appliances and levying fees on inefficient devices . This revenue neutral policy would reduce annual household energy consumption by 1,440 gigawatt-hours — the equivalent of taking 120,000 homes off the electricity grid — and greenhouse gas emissions by 275 thousand tonnes each year. More »
