POLS 3370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, Natural Resources Canada, Intergenerational Equity
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Interdisciplinary: must be approached from an interdisciplinary point of view. Inter-departmental: cutting across different government departments, independent agencies, e. g. natural resources. Inter-sectoral: breaking out of the silos", all are very interrelated. Canada"s key environmental agencies: federal agencies, environment and climate change canada (est. Environmental protection act, 1999: department of fisheries and oceans (est. Two important cases: in 2011, germany introduced is energiewende roughly energy transition a bold new strategy that promises to meet 80% of its power needs with alternatice energy by. 2050: strong green party presence, operates under proportional representation, in february 2017, sweden announces plans to phase out fossil fuels completely by 2045, both countries have pr. Nation energy board act: passed in 1959, empowers the national energy board to regulate and approve the construction and operation of oil and natural gas pipelines crossing provincial or international boundaries.