Upon the needs of international cooperation and advanced environmental technology, the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (TEPA) signed a cooperation memorandum with Environment Canada (EC) on July 8, 1996. TEPA had promoted the cooperation between Taiwan and Canada through projects, visiting, conferences, workshops, and exhibition. This project is to methodically organize environmental information and resources of Canada, to establish a web-site type catalogue with Chinese translation and interfaces, to analyze the trends of environmental technology and industry, to collect the development of environmental laws and policies, and to suggest future strategies for the reference of developing TEPA policies of environmental technology and international cooperation. This catalogue adopted the Internet as the propagation media to provide public available environmental information of Canada. The project provided the environmental information catalogued as sustainable development, environmental technology, climate change, environmental laws, and environmental industry with categorized web sites among 11 to 51. The current development and future trends were also analyzed and discussed. The site was designed professionally with quick connection to various Canada introductory and useful web sites, downloads area with public domain documentation and annual reports, as well as the connection to many science and technology databases.

Canada,Environmental information