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Cathy Walker was born in Vancouver, BC in 1949 and grew up in Burnaby. Her father was a member of the Machinists Union which influenced her perspective while growing up. She attended Simon Fraser University (SFU) during a time of fervent political activism by students and became involved in the Young New Democrats (YND) during the same time. She left school to pursue a working-class experience and began working at Cascade Electronics where she quickly became involved with the union, then the…

The CCICED Task Force on Environmental Governance assembled a group of environmental policy experts and academics from China, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United States to examine means for developing more effective environmental governance strategies for China. The Task Force surveyed the status of environmental governance in China and across East Asia, the European Union, Japan, and the United States to form the basis for the recommendations in this report.

This work report covers the general target for the program of economic planning and environmental protection, integrated decision-making frameworks, progress of the working group since 1997, and ongoing activities.

This summary record covers the second meeting of the 2nd phase of the China council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development.

This paper addresses a growing interest on the part of financial contributors, Council members, and the Government of China to understand the impact of the Council's recommendations and, therefore, ways to continue improving the effectiveness of its efforts.

This report aims to describe achievements China made in the area of environment and development, and provide a real policy context so that members could make their own judgments as to the practical impact of policy recommendations.

This report contains preliminary findings on the basis of information obtained from reports prepared by the Chinese experts from the Working Group on Pollution Control on the environment in Guangzhou, and from discussions with Chinese experts from Guangzhou City, Chongqing City, Guangdong Province, South China Institute of Environmental Protection and Guangzhou Research Institute of Environmental Protection. remaining questions of the experts of the Netherlands are written in the text…