1.42 Effects of ozone-depleting substance reduction. Environment Canada also receives information from international sources on various environmental aspects and the effects of reducing consumption of ozone-depleting substances. The scientific information comes from the reports of the Scientific Evaluation Body of the Montreal Protocol. This body is composed of international experts from countries, including Canada, that are parties to the Montreal Protocol. These reports shall be reviewed by experts and used by the parties as a basis for decision-making. According to these reports, the Union is a strong supporter of international environmental action and cooperation in all these areas and an active actor in promoting the concept of sustainable development throughout the world. 1.126 Although there were no specific requirements to report to Parliament or Canadians on the achievement of the environmental outcomes of the five agreements, the lead departments used, in some cases, their departmental performance reports to report on international environmental agreements. However, in most cases, the reports focused on departmental activities or initiatives and not on environmental results or results achieved. We noted one exception: for the Ozone Annex, Environment Canada provided in its performance reports information on the ground-level ozone content in major cities and on the concentrations of related air pollutants.
1.7 the importance of environmental agreements. Since many environmental problems such as air pollution, ozone depletion, climate change and marine pollution are transboundary or global, countries cannot achieve the expected results alone. Countries have increasingly recognized this and developed a wide range of international environmental agreements in order to be able to cooperate on global environmental issues. An agreement between two nations is called a bilateral environmental agreement. When the agreement is concluded between three or more nations, it is called a multilateral environmental agreement (MEA). These agreements, concluded mainly by the United Nations, concern issues such as atmospheric policy, freshwater policy, waste and hazardous substances policy, the marine environment, nature protection policy, noise pollution and nuclear safety. [2] 1.84 NAFO manages 14 straddling stocks in the area outside the Canadian 200-mile limit. ICCAT collects data or defines management measures for some thirty highly migratory fish species in the Atlantic Ocean and its adjacent seas. The two organisations coordinate scientific research and provide, on behalf of the Member States, fish stock assessments and management advice.
They also set allowable catches and fishing quotas, minimum fish sizes and other conservation management measures. 1.1 International environmental agreements reflect key government policies on important environmental issues and Canadians should know what has and has not been achieved as a result of these agreements. We examined five international environmental agreements to determine whether the relevant federal divisions are aware of the extent to which the specific objectives of the agreements are being achieved. .