In accordance with the Government of Canada’s objectives, Canadian Heritage’s fourth Sustainable Development Strategy (SDS 2007-2009) focuses on ensuring that the environmental impacts of its decisions are understood, weighed and appropriately addressed.
Sustainable Development Strategy 2007-2009 (SDS 2007-2009) of Canadian Heritage is the fourth such strategy that the Department has prepared. SDS 2007-2009 takes its lead from governmentwide federal efforts to provide greater focus on key environmental objectives, and to address a number of outstanding governance challenges faced by federal organizations.
Canadian Heritage’s SDS 2007-2009 is guided by a focused list of six federal goals. These goals shape the commitments that every federal department and agency undertakes with their SD strategies. The goals fall within two broad categories: improvements to environmental quality; and improvements to management practices.
The environmental quality goals focus on:
• Clean water
• Clean air
• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
The sustainable development management
goals focus on:
• Sustainable communities
• Sustainable development and use of natural resources
• Governance for sustainable development
Version française: Stratégie de développement durable 2007-2009 Patrimoine canadien