Übersetzung für "AES Environment Canada Unit " (Englisch → Französisch) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 159 Mr. Sean Casey: With respect to the considered cuts to Environment Canada: (a) which specific departments and programs are affected, and what was the process taken to determine whether or not to make cuts to a specific department and program, (i) what, if any, Environment Canada Research Scientists were consulted regarding the considered cuts, (ii) what scientists outside of Environment Canada were consulted, (iii) for each department and program specified in (a), what is the number of current full-time, part-time, and contract scientific posi ...[+++]tions, (iv) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who have been given “workforce adjustment” letters, (v) the number of full-time, part-time, and contract scientists who are going to be moved out of their current “job function”, (vi) what, if any, consideration has been given to shutting-down the Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN), and, if so, has the United States been consulted, as Canada has commitments under the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, (vii) specify all programs run by a single scientist who has been given a “workforce adjustment” letter, and for each program identified, what, if any, concern was expressed regarding the ability of the program to continue, (viii) the process that will be taken to place scientists in appropriate research areas, (ix) what, if any, consideration has been given to the fact that many scientists are highly trained in very specialized fields, and that an appropriate replacement position may not be possible; (b) specify all national and international environmental commitments to which Canada is subject, including, but not limited to the Global Climate Observing System, the World Meteorological Organization/United Nations Environment Programme Scientific Assessments of Ozone Depletion, which are mandated by the Montreal Protocol to occur at least every four years, and hosting the World Ozone and UV Data Centre, (i) wha ...

13. Calls on the EU and Russia to initiate negotiations with the United States and Canada an international treaty for the protection of the Arctic, along the lines of the existing Antarctic Treaty, in order to make the Arctic a zone of peace and cooperation reserved solely for peaceful activities; given the vulnerability of the Arctic environment stresses the urgent need to establish, as a first step, a 50-year moratorium on any exploration or expansion of mineral resource extraction in the r ...[+++]egion;

9. Expresses its concern with the impact of the extraction of oil sand on local biodiversity and on environment due to increased greenhouse gas emissions; invites Canada in view of the forthcoming United Nations Climate Change Talks, to join the ‘Coalition of the willing’ alongside to EU;

11. Emphasises the strategic importance of the Arctic region for the EU in terms of energy resources, the environment and transport issues; given the growing accessibility of resources owing to the effects of climate change, underlines the need to develop a comprehensive strategy for cooperation in the High North; is therefore convinced that in order to safeguard its long-term interests the EU should get its partners in the region, such as Norway and Iceland, actively involved in such a strategy; calls for fresh consideration to be given to a pragmatic long-term EU policy involving other stakeholders, such as Russia, t ...[+++]he United States and Canada, on energy security, transport and the environment, in order to avoid potential conflict in this sensitive region;

15. Emphasises the strategic importance of the Arctic region for the EU, with regard to energy resources and environmental and transport issues; in view of the growing accessibility of resources due to the effects of climate change, underlines the necessity to develop a comprehensive strategy for cooperation in the far north; is therefore convinced that in order to safeguard its long-term interests, the EU should ensure that partners in the region, such as Norway and Iceland, are actively involved in such a strategy; calls for fresh reflection on a pragmatic long-term EU policy with other stakeholders, such as Russia, t ...[+++]he United States and Canada, on energy and security as well as transport and the environment, in order to avoid potential conflict in this sensitive region;

, and "Canada and the European Community .will join their efforts in the protection of the environment and the pursuit of sustainable development within each country as well as the preservation of the fragile global eco-system", Declare their intention to strengthen further their cooperation in the following areas: * multilateral negotiations of the conventions on climate change, on the conservation of biological diversity, and on a global forest convention or agreement; * preparations for the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development currently underway; * the follow-up of the implementation of the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer and the Basel Convention on the control of transboundary move ...[+++]ment of hazardous wastes and their disposal; * the cooperation with Eastern and Central Europe in the G-24 and in the framework of the UN Economic Commission for Europe; * the bilateral ministerial initiative to ensure conservation and rational management of living marine resources in the Northwest Atlantic; - 2 - * the pursuit of effective measures to address the pressing issue of marine pollution, particularly from land-based sources; * working together through UNCED to develop comprehensive principles for the conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests; * the closely linked issues of the development and use of economic and fiscal instruments in the implementation of environmental policy objectives; * the exchange of views on waste management, the implementation of environmental impact assessment, the development and application of environmental legislation and all matters of water quality.