National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
Annual Report 2000-2001

Look Ahead

The coming year, 2001-2002, will be an active one for the NRTEE. The following are the key initiatives planned for next year:

• The NRTEE's program Sustainable Development Priorities for the New Millennium will continue to promote Achieving a Balance: Four Challenges for Canada in the Next Decade through presentations by the NRTEE members throughout the country. The year-long national communications campaign will target all levels of government, industry associations, citizens' groups and the media.
• The Environment and Sustainable Development Indicators (ESDI) Initiative will move into the second phase of the three-year program. Cluster groups of experts will suggest and test potential environment and sustainable development indicators. The three broad issues that will be addressed are human capital, natural capital and produced capital. The goal is to generate a national set of sustainable development indicators that will be practical, feasible, well accepted and used widely in Canada following the release of the final report (no later than early 2003).
• The Economic Instruments program will concentrate its efforts on stimulating discussion about and promoting Ecological Fiscal Reform over the next two to three years, while continuing to make annual pre-budget submissions to the Department of Finance.
• The Measuring Eco-efficiency program will release a final report and workbook in the fall.
• The Aboriginal Communities and Non-renewable Resource Development State of the Debate report will be released in June in Yellowknife, NT, and actively communicated throughout the following year.
• Cohort 8 of LEAD Canada will attend its second and final international training session in the Commonwealth of Independent States in August 2001. After Cohort 8's graduation at this international session, the NRTEE will cease to be the host institute for the LEAD program in Canada.
• The Conservation of Natural Heritage program will host a national conference in Winnipeg, MB, in November.

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