Ecojustice

Bringing Environmental Rights to Canada:
A Dynamic Strategy for Policy Change

Environmental protection is excluded from the Charter of Rights and Freedoms for Canadians allowing government to evade responsibility and industry to ignore existing environmental laws. Ecojustice has a plan to modernize Canada’s laws so that all of us have the legal right to a healthy environment. This will be achieved through three interdependent activities: precedent-setting litigation, strategic law reform; and outreach & public engagement. Future environmental lawsuits, campaigns and legislation would rest on a fundamental recognition of an individual’s right to a healthy environment in the same way rights to life, liberty and security are recognized today.

Website: www.ecojustice.ca

Environmental Defense

Take Two: Redefining Canadian Policy on Health, Toxins and the Environment

Environmental Defence is a leading voice in toxics policy in Canada. Take Two builds upon their successful BPA (baby bottle) campaign and seeks to harness increasing awareness of the link between toxins and cancer to push for stronger overarching legislation of cosmetics, personal care products and other toxins in air, water, and our environment. They will work with consumers and industries to encourage voluntary phase-out or elimination of five targeted toxins and/or carcinogens in consumer products.

Website: environmentaldefence.ca

In addition, in August 2012, the Environment Committee, together with our program partners, will accept applications for project funding to support these two programs. We anticipate that about $300,000 per year will be available for these project grants.

The Environment Committee is confident that making this significant investment in two ambitious programs will provide tremendous benefit to the Canadian environment. The committee is also aware that, because both programs will mobilize thousands of Canadians, at the end of the grant in 2016, both of our program partners will be robust, strong organizations in a better position to embark on their next ambitious program.

In addition to two program grants, the committee made a one year project grant of $200,000 to The Natural Step.

Given these major steps by the Environment Committee, the committee will not be accepting any grant applications until August 2012. We will announce the project grant guidelines on our website in Spring 2012.

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Accelerating the Sustainability Revolution: A Collaboration Model
for Policy Change

The Natural Step plans to develop and pilot through an unprecedented series of partnerships, an innovative model for multi-stakeholder engagement - the Sustainability Transition Lab. The 'lab' would create the conditions for commitment, collaboration and a new collective consciousness to emerge that will accelerate change toward a more sustainable world.

Website: www.thenaturalstep.org