The mandate for the Sustainability Roundtable was transferred from the Environmental Task Force and then transferred to the Roundtable on the Environment. The following material is provided for archival purposes.
The City of Toronto has a long history of supporting the pursuit of sustainability. Council's Strategic Plan sets the stage for the City's sustainability objectives. The City's current framework incorporates a number of different components including:
In addition, the City has specific endeavours related to each of the three areas of sustainability:
- Environment, through initiatives such as the Toronto Inter-Departmental Environment (TIE) Team;
- Economy, through initiatives such as Moving the Economy, and
- Social Equity, through initiatives such as Toronto Food Policy Council
The Sustainability Roundtable
The Sustainability Roundtable was created to serve as an arena for high-level strategic thinking on sustainability as it relates to the City.
The Roundtable has set up a number of workgroups to assist in its work. Agendas, minutes and notes are available to the public. Annual progress reports are also available.
The Terms of Reference for the Sustainability Roundtable were developed from recommendations (50-53) contained in the Environmental Plan: Clean, Green and Healthy.
The role of the Sustainability Roundtable is to assist the City in shaping the discussion and understanding of sustainability, it is not mandated to implement the recommendations of the Environmental Plan.
Annual Roundtable Reports
The Sustainability Roundtable provides an annual report to Council through the Policy and Finance Standing Committee
