This summary of Canada's Green Plan describes the targets and schedules which the government hopes will reduce chemical wastes, and encourage environmental initiatives in air, water, and land. It briefly examines the various renewable resource industries (forests, agriculture, and fisheries) and the ways in which a viable environmental policy will ensure their survival. The Plan also looks at environmental issues which are more international in scope, namely, global warming, acid rain, ozone depletion, environmental emergencies.

Green Plans are the most effective strategies yet developed for moving from industrial environmental deterioration to postindustrial sustainability. Huey D. Johnson provides the first detailed and understandable examination of the theory, implementation, and performance of green plans in the Netherlands, Canada, and New Zealand. Plans being considered in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and the European Community are also discussed. Green plans will serve future generations as models of creative collaboration between government and business.

First annual report on the Green Plan, providing a review of progress on implementing the plan and giving highlights of the year's activities. Details are presented on actions taken in protecting air, water, and land; sustaining renewable resources; protecting the Arctic; participation in global measures; use of environmentally-responsible decision-making; and emergency preparedness.

“This is the roadmap out of climate crisis that Canadians have been waiting for.” — Naomi Klein, activist and New York Times bestselling author of This Changes Everything and The Shock Doctrine • One of Canada’s top policy analysts provides the first full-scale blueprint for meeting our climate change commitments • Contains the results of a national poll on Canadians’ attitudes to the climate crisis • Shows that radical transformative climate action can be done, while producing jobs and reducing inequality as we retool how we live and work. • Deeply researched and targeted specifically to Canada and Canadians while providing a model that other countries could follow Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a critical “danger line” for the planet and human life as we know it. It’s 2020, and Canada is not on track to meet our targets. To do so, we’ll need radical systemic change to how we live and work—and fast. How can we ever achieve this? Top policy analyst and author Seth Klein reveals we can do it now because we’ve done it before. During the Second World War, Canadian citizens and government remade the economy by retooling factories, transforming their workforce, and making the war effort a common cause for all Canadians to contribute to. Klein demonstrates how wartime thinking and community efforts can be repurposed today for Canada’s own Green New Deal. He shares how we can create jobs and reduce inequality while tackling our climate obligations for a climate neutral—or even climate zero—future. From enlisting broad public support for new economic models, to job creation through investment in green infrastructure, Klein shows us a bold, practical policy plan for Canada’s sustainable future. More than this: A Good War offers a remarkably hopeful message for how we can meet the defining challenge of our lives. COVID-19 has brought a previously unthinkable pace of change to the world—one which demonstrates our ability to adapt rapidly when we’re at risk. Many recent changes are what Klein proposes in these very pages. The world can, actually, turn on a dime if necessary. This is the blueprint for how to do it.

This summary of Canada's Green Plan describes the targets and schedules which the government hopes will reduce chemical wastes, and encourage environmental initiatives in air, water, and land. It briefly examines the various renewable resource industries (forests, agriculture, and fisheries) and the ways in which a viable environmental policy will ensure their survival. The Plan also looks at environmental issues which are more international in scope, namely, global warming, acid rain, ozone depletion, environmental emergencies.

This paper is a critique of the federal government's Green Plan which proposes a $3 billion, five-year regulatory and policy action plan on the environment. The plan is assessed against six criteria, or sh̦ades of green': key environmental policy needs, the green plans of other industrialized nations, the standards and expectations of the single-interest environmental lobby, current economic realities, previous megapolicy initiatives, and the larger geopolitics of Canadian unity.