The measures that matter : Mesures qui comptent : mesures que prennent les industries du secteur des ressources naturelles du Canada pour protéger l'énvironnement

With our network of over 450 chambers of commerce and boards of trade, representing 200,000 businesses of all sizes, in all sectors of the economy and in all regions, we help shape public policy and decision-making to the benefit of businesses, communities and families across Canada. [...] In China alone, the government is planning on • Canada is one of the largest exporters of several moving the equivalent of three New York Cities from forest products, including softwood lumber and the country to its cities every year.1 The growing newsprint.2 middle class in other nations will want the same kinds of consumer goods and convenience we take for •. Canada is in the top five in the glo [...] Bringing the needs of a more prosperous world in line with the limits of the earth is one of the greatest The report focuses on the extractive or harvesting challenges of our time. [...] Members of the Forest Products Association of Canada have pledged that the industry as a whole will become carbon-neutral by 0 2015 without the purchase of carbon offset credits.21 2009 2010 2011 Between 2007 and 2011, the forest products sector Figure 2.5: Energy use in the forestry and logging industry, 2009 to 2011. [...] The forest that consideration of how the land will be used by product waste was normally disposed of in specially future generations starts right in the design phase and constructed landfills, where it released greenhouse continues throughout the life of the mine.