Roundtable on the Environment

The Capital Regional District (CRD) Roundtable on the Environment (RTE) was formed in 1991 to act as a community-based, multi-stakeholder volunteer body to advise and assist the CRD standing committees and the Board of Directors to address regional environmental and sustainability issues.

Specifically, the role of the RTE is to:

Respond to specific requests for advice, comment and assistance.
Identify and monitor environmental and sustainability issues with particular focus on the strategic priorities of the Board and recommend policy directions and actions.

Subcommittees

Monitoring & Planning

The State of Environment Indicators Reports provide information about the state of the natural environment in the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. Information on the environment and the way in which people are using natural resources helps us to better understand if this region is making progress towards a more sustainable society and to identify actions that we - as individual citizens, businesses and governments - can take to assist this. Read more

Pesticide Reduction

The RTE Pesticide Reduction subcommittee is responsible for spearheading the work toward reducing and eventually eliminating the non-essential use of pesticides in urban communities of the Capital Region. Read more

Energy & Climate Change

The Energy and Climate Change subcommittee represents the RTE on the CRD’s Community Energy Plan (CEP) Steering Committee.

The subcommittee is working to:

Build awareness of climate change in the region
Encourage mitigation measures to reduce GHG emissions including a regional idling control bylaw
Promote adaptation actions to prepare for climate change impacts.
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Food & Agriculture

The Food and Agriculture subcommittee and the Capital Region Food and Agriculture Initiatives Roundtable (CR-FAIR) are engaged in a joint food system project:

Putting Food and Food Policy on the Table (PDF )

The purpose of this project is to bring governments, industry and communities together to effect positive change within the regional food system.The Project has three phases:

Develop a Regional Food Charter (PDF ) to provide a vision for the regional food system
Write a Capital Region Food and Health Action Plan (PDF ) to identify the priority actions needed to realize this vision
Establish a Regional Food Policy Council to coordinate and monitor the implementation of the Capital Region Food and Health Action Plan over the long term.