Identifying and addressing emerging environmental issues
Strategic Environmental Initiatives is a function that provides the Environmental Management Business Unit with the opportunity to identify and proactively address other emerging or urgent environmental issues that may potentially affect the community and/or the Corporation before they become critical.
Strategic Environmental Initiatives identify such issues as: groundwater quality and quantity; urban air quality concerns; sustainability and sustainable communities; other issues that may have long-term effects on the environment or the environmental health of Calgarians.
Strategic Initiatives supports the City of Calgary as it applies the
Triple Bottom Line to its operations.
Strategic Initiatives is also actively engaged with other orders of government: