CETA Environmental Information provides a public repository for environmental information relevant to the Canada-EU Trade agreement (CETA). A short introduction to CETA can be found here.
The current government environmental information related to CETA was not initially subject to a transparent process; there has been significant improvement on this front with the release of the Initial Strategic Environmental Assessment (IEA) in February 2012 and the new call for public consultation.
This website advocates for a more transparent process for future trade agreements, and encourages public feedback during the ongoing CETA trade agreement negotiations
- asking our Environmental NGOs and scientists to provide relevant and timely information to the public
- enabling transparent public participation by means of comments, polls, voting on suggestions, a forum and other social media.
Canadian EU Trade Agreement (CETA)
The Canadian government has completed the Initial Environmental Assessment(IEA) for the CETA negotiations. Upon completion the government will consult with an external environmental advisory committee – the status of this phase has not been confirmed yet.
You can find the Canadian CETA Initial Strategic Environmental Assessment here.
The EU-Canada Trade Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) is a project funded by the European Commission (DG Trade) and has been published online since July 2011, along with documents from civil society meetings dated Sept 2007 & March 2011, Interim reports and an online discussion forum. The SIA evaluates the social, economic and environmental aspects of the agreement within the context of the EU, Canada and relevant third countries in relation to the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).
You can find the EU-Canada Trade SIA here:
This website uses the EU-SIA framework to communicate Canadian CETA environmental information.
Vi Taylor is a concerned citizen and blogger at http://environmenttrade.org
The views on this website are entirely my own, and do not represent the views of any government, trade, NGO or other organization unless otherwise identified in the text.
