Development of framework for improved sustainability in the canadian port sector

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Canada Port Authorities (CPAs) are federal entities responsible for managing Canadian Ports with local, national, and international strategic importance. Despite their connection to the Government of Canada, the CPAs inconsistently report sustainability performance and are absent from Canada’s Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS)—a national strategy to operationalize the United Nation’s (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainability initiatives currently used by CPAs only contribute towards attaining 14 of 36 relevant SDG targets, suggesting the need for an additional sustainability framework to achieve the remainder of these targets. This paper proposes a port-specific framework based on disclosures from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) to fill performance gaps in current sustainability initiatives. Disclosures were selected in an iterative process based on literature and industry best practices. The framework provides a unified approach for both CPAs and policymakers to attain SDG targets relevant to the Canadian port sector and align sustainability performance with Canada’s FSDS.

Idioma originalEnglish
Número de artículo11980
PublicaciónSustainability
Volumen13
N.º21
DOI
EstadoPublished - nov. 1 2021

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Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Green Shipping Partnership [Grant No. 895-2017-1003].

Funding Information:
Acknowledgments: This study was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada funded project “Green Shipping: Governance and Innovation for a Sustainable Maritime Supply Chain” and the Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Graduate Scholarship (NSGS).

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • Geography, Planning and Development
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
  • Energy Engineering and Power Technology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law

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