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Harvey L. Mead
Sustainable Development Commissioner
Quebec, Canada
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Paris Declaration 2005
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Paris Declaration: Strategic
assessment targeted
Promoting a harmonised approach to environmental
assessments
40. This progress [by donors in harmonisation around
environmental impact assessment (EIA)] needs to be deepened,
including on addressing implications of global environmental
issues such as climate change, desertification and loss of
biodiversity.
41. Donors and partner countries jointly commit to:
– Strengthen the application of EIAs and deepen common procedures for
projects, including consultations with stakeholders; and develop and
apply common approaches for “strategic environmental
assessment” at the sector and national levels.
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Managing for results: strategies
and indicators
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Indicator 9: Strategic assessment
involved
Indicator
– Use of common arrangements or procedures — Percent of
aid provided as programme-based approaches.
Target
– 66% of aid flows are provided in the context of programme-
based approaches.
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OECD in 2004 and 2006
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II. Donor countries also at work
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The Act provides a
definition of SD
Sustainable development refers to the activities carried out to
ensure human beings a healthy and productive life, which is in
harmony with nature and establishes an equity between
generations (current and future), by maintaining functional
ecosystems and the biodiversity for which they provide habitat,
while respecting the sociocultural heritage, the social fabric of
societies. These activities include the education and training of
the population with a view to its participation in the planning
and decision-making processes, including elements of an
economic nature. The processes in question are designed in such
a way as to clearly target the appropriate level of intervention
and give priority to dialogue and collaboration between all
decision-makers. 10
The Act identifies a set of
SD tools
The carrying out of these activities must be based on the use of
tools making it possible to take into account the issues at stake
associated with the integration of human activities in the
framework provided by the biophysical environment and the
social fabric of individuals’ lives. These tools may include
strategic assessment, processes to evaluate and manage social
and environmental risks, several economic tools and the life
cycle approach. This latter approach provides a framework for
carrying out several evaluations, including energy assessments
and the calculation and integration of the costs associated with
externalities.
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An independent auditor of
SD
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Observations of Quebec’s
Sustainable Development
Commissioner - 2007
The recognition of a situation of overshoot in relation to the planet’s
support capacity results in a feeling of urgency and justifies the change of
direction advocated by the Sustainable Development Act.
It is important to know the international context of current development in
order to identify the appropriate interventions for the change of direction
that needs to be brought about.
It is important to know the historical context of current development in
order to identify the appropriate interventions for the change of direction
that needs to be brought about.
Sustainable development refers to everything associated with development,
including economic activities.
Sustainable development is not a field that is reserved for specialists; it
concerns any person who, having recognized the situation of overshoot,
endeavours to take corrective action.
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Observations of Quebec’s
Sustainable Development
Commissioner - 2007
All of the activities of the Administration aim to contribute to the
development of society.
The principles set forth in the Sustainable Development Act provide a
global framework for interventions; the Act emphasizes:
– the objective of development, namely social progress: people are
entitled to a healthy and productive life, • and actions are undertaken
with a concern for intra- and inter-generational equity;
– the condition for development, namely respecting the support capacity
of ecosystems.
Sustainable development is based on a long-term vision and consequently
requires long-term planning.
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Observations of the
Sustainable Development
Commissioner - 2007
Development planning must use tools making it possible to integrate all of
the issues at stake.
The characteristics of sustainable development suggest having recourse to
ecological economics to guide interventions.
One of the first measures related to having recourse to ecological
economics consists in looking for synthetic indicators that complement the
Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Auditing work must be carried out on the basis of the following elements:
synthetic indicators that complement the GDP, the principles of sustainable
development, as well as the tools developed for it.
The auditing of the development processes undertaken by the
Administration entails the examination of certain priority issues, including
those associated with demography and energy.
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Environment, economy,
development
The characteristics of sustainable development suggest having recourse to
ecological economics to guide interventions.
ENVIRONNEMENT
Matières Matières
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Quebec Government SD
Strategy
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Action plans for
implementation
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Environment and Sustainable
Development Commissioner –
Canada October 2007
After a decade, sustainable development strategies are a
major disappointment. For the most part, senior managers
in departments have not demonstrated that they take the
strategies seriously, and few parliamentary committees
have considered them.
The government has indicated that sustainable
development is a government-wide initiative, not just a
departmental one. Successive governments have committed
to producing a federal strategy for sustainable development
that would guide the efforts of individual departments and
clearly indicate what is expected of them. However, this has
not yet been done.
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Action Plan of the Auditor
General
Identification of tools facilitating the application of
the principles of the Act:
– Life cycle analysis
– Strategic evaluation
– Risk assessment
Targets set:
– 50% of audit missions in 2008 and 2009 will use these tools
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Strategic Assessment
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The obese planet
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GDP and GPI
One of the first measures related to having recourse to ecological
economics consists in looking for synthetic indicators that
complement the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
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Ecological Footprint
and Human Development Index
Canada
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