Document de travail sur les perspectives canadiennes en matière d’environnement

The document outlines a proposal for the Canadian Environmental Outlook (CEO), an integrated environmental assessment designed to provide a prospective view of Canada's environment. It defines the CEO as a process and a series of reports that move beyond traditional state-of-the-environment reporting by focusing on future trends and strategic choices. The paper suggests a 20-to-30-year time horizon and a multi-scalar geographic approach (national, sub-national, and local). It identifies key potential topics such as climate change, water quality, and biodiversity, and recommends a governance structure involving shared ownership between federal, provincial, and territorial governments. The document concludes by recommending a full feasibility analysis and a structured project proposal to be completed by autumn 2007, with a target for a flagship report in 2010.

• The Canadian Environmental Outlook (CEO) is conceived as an integrated environmental assessment that differs from traditional state-of-the-environment reports by prioritizing future-oriented analysis over retrospective data.
• Stakeholders suggest a time horizon of 20 to 30 years for the CEO to allow for the implementation and evaluation of policies and to align with corporate capital rotation.
• The CEO requires a multi-scalar geographic approach because different environmental issues are best analyzed at different levels, such as national for climate change mitigation, sub-national for sea ice, and local for smog and water quality.
• To ensure legitimacy and credibility, the CEO should be a shared national initiative involving federal, provincial, and territorial governments, as well as NGOs, Indigenous groups, and academia.
• The document identifies several potential priority themes for the CEO, including water quality, air quality, biodiversity, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and issues specific to the North.
• Estimated costs for a similar national outlook process are between 800,000 and 1,000,000 US dollars over 18 to 24 months, excluding modeling costs.

APA

Rothman, D. S. (2007). Document de travail sur les perspectives canadiennes en matière d’environnement. International Institute for Sustainable Development. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/env_outlook_discussion_fr.pdf

Chicago

Rothman, Dale S. Document de travail sur les perspectives canadiennes en matière d’environnement. International Institute for Sustainable Development, 2007. https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/env_outlook_discussion_fr.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{rothman2007document, author = {Rothman, Dale S.}, title = {{Document de travail sur les perspectives canadiennes en matière d’environnement}}, institution = {International Institute for Sustainable Development}, year = {2007}, month = jun, url = {https://www.iisd.org/system/files/publications/env_outlook_discussion_fr.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }