The Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP)
is an independent, not-for-profit research and education organization. We are a registered Canadian charity and one of Canada’s top environmental think tanks.
CIELAP meets and correspond with leaders and opinion-makers from the legal, corporate, and academic fields, and from across the wide-spectrum of society, to produce quality research that is objective, practical and solutions-focussed.
CIELAP's mission is to inform legislative, policy and regulatory outcomes for Sustainability at the national and provincial/territorial levels of government in Canada.
What's New
CIELAP's 2009 to 2014 Strategic Plan – Now Finalized!
December 2009
CIELAP's Fall Newsletter
November 2009
Recent Publications
Enhancing the Flow of Ecological Goods and Services to Society: Key Principles for the Design of Marginal and Ecologically Significant
Agricultural Land Retirement Programs in Canada
February 2010
Moving Toward a Soft Path Approach? A Case Study of Water Management in Guelph, Ontario
January 2010
Discussion Paper on the Sustainable International Management of Waste Electrical & Electronic Equipment
July 2009
Book Chapter – Mercury Trade in a Globalizing World
2009
Reducing and Phasing Out the Use of Antibiotics and Hormone Growth Promoters in Canadian Agriculture
April 2009
Options Paper and background papers on Ontario’s Review of the Waste Diversion Act
February 2009
Recent Briefs
Implementation of the Federal Sustainable Development Act
June 2009
Biosolids Management in Ontario
June 2009
Life Cycle Assessment
June 2009
Ontario’s Toxics Reduction Act, 2009
June 2009
Nanotechnology and Metals
May 2009
Sustainable Consumption and Production and the 2010/2011 review/policy cycle of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development
May 2009
Recent Comments on Government Consultations
Comments on From Waste to Worth: The Role of Waste Diversion in the Green Economy, A Minister's Report, EBR Registry # 010-8164
Joint Statement on From Waste to Worth, EBR Registry # 010-8164
Feb 2010
Comments on the Proposed Legislative Amendments to the Mining Act, EBR Registry # 010-6559
Jul 2009
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