CETA Environmental Information - New Canadian Website
http://cetaenvironment.wordpress.com/
INDEX TO WEBSITE
1) HOME
2) ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION ENTRIES
3) PARTICIPATE
4) RESOURCE LINKS In progress.
5) CETA Public Environment Forum: Say Your Peace
6) CETA ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES : PUBLIC FEEDBACK:
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CETA Environmental Information provides a public repository for
environmental information relevant to the Canada-EU Trade agreement
(CETA). A short introduction to CETA can be found here.
The current government environmental information related to CETA has
not been subject to a transparent process. This website attempts to
remedy the situation by:
* asking our Environmental NGOs and scientists to provide relevant
and timely information to the public
* enabling transparent public participation by means of comments,
polls, voting on suggestions, a forum and other social media.
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Canadian EU Trade Agreement (CETA)
The Canadian government is in the process of finalizing the draft
Initial Environmental Assessment(IEA) for the CETA negotiations.
Upon completion the government will consult with an external
environmental advisory committee. Given that there have been nine
rounds of negotiation and we are nearing the last two rounds, it is
unfortunate that the public may not have the opportunity to view the
IEA until it is too late for input.
The EU-Canada Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) is a
project funded by the European Commission (DG Trade) and has been
published online since July 2011, along with documents from civil
society meetings dated Sept 2007 & March 2011, Interim reports and
an online discussion forum. The SIA evaluates the social, economic
and environmental aspects of the agreement within the context of the
EU, Canada and relevant third countries in relation to the
Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
You can find the EU-Canada Trade SIA here:
Because the Canadian environmental study and advisory process appears
to be non-transparent, this website will use the EU-SIA framework to
communicate Canadian CETA environmental information.
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ENVIRONMENT INFORMATION ENTRIES
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Summary: Beef and pork environmental issues with CETA
Posted by Podwell on November 15, 2011 · Leave a Comment
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environmental-issues-with-ceta/
Poll: Should federal governments incorporate a sustainability
framework within trade agreements?
Posted by Podwell on November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
After I completed the poll the results were :
Strongly agree 83.33% / Agree somewhat 16.67%
http://cetaenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/poll-should-federal-
governments-incorporate-a-sustainability-framework-within-trade-
agreements/
Sustainability Process - Governance, Stakeholder Engagement,
Disclosure, Performance Measurement
Posted by Podwell on November 14, 2011 · 1 Comment
Based on the report The 21st Century Corporation: The CERES Roadmap
for Sustainability there are four broad areas of activity for
achieving sustainability as noted above.
http://cetaenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/sustainability-
process-stakeholder-engagement-governance-disclosure-performance-
measurement/
Enquiry to Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Posted by Podwell on November 3, 2011 · Leave a Comment
The following questions were sent to Environment Canada, the
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT),
and the Premier of British Columbia. Answers are below.
http://cetaenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/11/03/enquiry-to-foreign-
affairs-and-international-trade-canada/
David Suzuki at Occupy Vancouver
Oct. 22, 2011
Posted by Podwell on October 29, 2011 · Leave a Comment
http://cetaenvironment.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/david-suzuki-at-
occupy-wall-street-oct-22-2011/
Sharing a few ideas with the Occupy Movement.
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CETA Environmental Information
PARTICIPATE
* ...the essence of accountability lies in the relationships
between
the organisation and the society and/or stakeholder groups of
interest.
* NGOs, civil society and accountability: making the people
accountable to capital. Gray, Bebbington, Collison 2005
You are stakeholders of our future
Environmental NGOs and Scientists -> participate
Public -> participate
Why participate?
The Canadian government is in the process of finalizing the draft
Initial Environmental Assessment(IEA) for CETA negotiations. It´s
likely completion of the trade agreement will be early first quarter
2012. Upon the government´s completion of the IEA they will consult
with an external environmental advisory committee and then publish
the final IEA to the public.
The process is not transparent. There is no information about the
IEA available to the public. It is not clear who will be involved in
the external environmental committee. Given that there have been nine
rounds of negotiation and we are nearing the last two rounds, it is
unfortunate that the public and environmental groups may not have the
opportunity to view the IEA until it is too late for input.
The Canadian government is not being accountable to the public. The
position that environmental information should not be publicly
discussed during negotiations seems far from reasonable when we have
transparent access to the European CETA Sustainability Impact
Assessment at http://www.eucanada-sia.org/.
Without transparency or accountability in our government, how can
Canadians have confidence or trust in the environmental aspects of
the CETA agreement? We need a trusted, centralized place to access
Environmental NGO and environmental scientists´ information in order
to understand the impacts of the Canadian-EU Trade Agreement.
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RESOURCE LINKS
In progress.
NGOs
Government
European Union
EU - Canada Sustainability Impact Assessment
Canada
Getting Answers-A Guide to the Environmental Petitions Process
Trade Organizations
Other
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Comments
I maintain a website page on Environment and Trade for Sierra Club
Canada (SCC) which provides current information on trade agreements
and issues with an emphasis on CETA. I also represent SCC on the
National Trade Justice Network (TJN)
Trade Justice Network http://tradejustice.ca/en/section/2
SCC Environment and Trade Website:
http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/trade-environment
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CETA Public Environment Forum: Say Your Peace
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CETA Environmental Issues
CETA ENVIRONMENT PUBLIC FEEDBACK:
Add your ideas and vote on other ideas. How can trade agreements be
sensitive to the environment? What would you like to see done better?
The CETA Environmental Information website provides a public
repository for environmental information relevant to the Canada-EU
Trade agreement (CETA). There is an environmental study in process by
the Federal government, however the process is not transparent. The
government provides ability to input generally on environmental
issues, but the official public information gathering for the CETA
environmental study was closed in 2009.
This is an experiment to provide dynamic and transparent stakeholder
feedback about CETA environmental issues. Say your peace!
Environmental NGOs & Environmental Professionals
How to participate?
Request an account. Do you have research reports, articles, essays or
other resources which will increase public knowledge about CETA
environmental impacts? To add your documents please send a request to
cetaenvironment[at]gmail.com with the words "account request" in the
subject line.
Start a topic or join the discussion on the CETA Public Environment
Forum.
Sign a petition to the Federal Government asking for a CETA
Environmental Study which includes NGOs.
This site is funded by crowd-sourcing at IndieGoGo Public
Environmental Information. If you are able to donate - thank you.
Your feedback is important to make this a useful resource. Contribute
comments or suggestions about this site:
below in the Leave a Reply section
in the forum
email cetaenvironmental[at]gmail.com.
Why participate?
The federal government is finalizing the draft Initial Environmental
Assessment before consulting an external environmental advisory
committee. Even though we´ve been assured there will be an external
environmental advisory committee, we don´t know who will be on the
committee or how much time they will have to evaluate. Serious
concerns about the U.S. government´s use of `external´ environmental
assessments have risen during the Keystone Pipeline, quoted here from
a Nov 7 2011 CBC article
Sanders was one of three senators who requested the review,
saying they were disturbed by media reports that a company that
performed an environmental review on behalf of the State Department
had listed pipeline developer TransCanada as a "major client."
There is a reasonable possibility that our Federal government will
provide an environmental assessment for CETA that does not include
Canadian ENGOs, independent environmental scientists and other
stakeholders. Your rigorous scientific or analytical assessment is
critical.
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