ENV221H1 Lecture Notes - Sustainable Development, United Nations Environment Programme, Traditional Ecological Knowledge
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Subsidies tax breaks given to certain individuals or organizations if they help the environment. Taxation green taxes taxes on environmentally harmful activities and products. Permit trading governments create a market in permits for an environmentally harmful activity, and companies, utilities, or industries are allowed to buy, sell, or trade rights to conduct the activity. Influenced greatly by the us because the us was a leader in the early development of national-level environmental laws (was the first to pass the first comprehensive environmental protection law national environmental. Protection act (nepa) in 1970) and because of their trading relationship (nafta: environment canada was established in 1971, under the department of the. Act (1985), transportation of dangerous goods act (1992), canadian. Economy (nrtee, 1988) specific engos e. g. : mining industry mining association of manitoba. Riparian law anyone who has legal access to the water"s edge (i. e. owning property on a river bank) has the right to withdraw water from the resource.
