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Another group of inspiring sustainability leaders in Canada!

Check out this upcoming opportunity involving our friend and colleague, Coro Strandberg!

We recently attended the International Association for Impact Assessment's annual conference held in Montreal in April. This conference is always well-attended and this year was no exception: 1,130 delegates from over 70 countries! Celesa Horvath, one of our principal consultants, participated in four sessions as panelist (discussing ethics, social licence, and indigenous consent), presenter, or co-author! The proceedings are now available on line and you can find our fin...al papers at the links below: http://conferences.iaia.org/2017/final-papers.php Horvath and Braun: http://conferences.iaia.org//Horvath,%20Celesa%20-%20Focus Haines, Cousins, Horvath, LaCroix, and Craven: http://conferences.iaia.org//Haines,%20Kate%20-%20Evolutio Meanwhile, here's a photo of Celesa during her co-presentation of a paper on how British Columbia is working to focus environmental assessments on important issues.

Workshop dates for practitioner/stakeholder consultation on BC's policies for cumulative effects assessment and management have been announced. For more information, access to the draft policies and related documents, and to register for one of the workshops, click on the link. EA practitioners will be most interested in the workshop on Friday, June 17th, while other direct stakeholders in the implementation of the cumulative effects framework will be interested in the workshop on Thursday, June 16th. Both workshops will be in Richmond, BC. We're facilitating the workshops and we look forward to seeing you there! Even if you don't attend the workshops, you can still comment on the policies at the link below by June 27th!

Presentations from the Conference Board of Canada's recent CSR Summit are now available for download, including ours on social licence!