IRVINE : Canadian Official to Discuss ‘Green Plan’

Canada’s so-called “Green Plan,” a wide-ranging strategy adopted to protect its environment and natural resources, will be discussed tonight at UC Irvine.

Brian Emmett, Canada’s assistant deputy minister for the environment and one of the authors of the Green Plan, will discuss how the plan was developed, and how the government achieved consensus among a wide range of residents, from environmentalists to business and commercial interests.

The Canadian plan, unveiled in December, 1990, includes pollution controls for the Great Lakes, a wildlife conservation program and measures to protect the Arctic and to deal with global issues such as ozone depletion, climactic change, deforestation and ocean dumping. Emmett will speak at 8 p.m. in the Crystal Cove Auditorium at the UCI Student Center, at Bridge Road and Pereira Drive.

For more information, call (714) 856-6379.