The Study Of Canadian Arctic Arctic Environmental Policy

With the global warming and the increasing of human activities in the Arctic region, the Arctic strategic interests has become increasingly prominent, however, the Arctic ecological environment has been facing lots of threats. In this case, the Canadian Arctic environmental policy has not only won the initiatives for realizing the Canadian Arctic interests, but also has done its contribution to deal with the Arctic environment problems, which is true and virtual, flexible and appropriate. The main content of the Canadian Arctic environmental policy not only includes the active participation in various international Arctic environmental organizations or agreements and a variety of domestic policies and laws, but also includes the Canadian government's understanding of Arctic environmental security, the national consciousness about the arctic and the awareness of protecting environment, the claims and well-being of Northern Aboriginals in Canada, as well as the sustainable development of its northern region, and so on.The Canadian government's understanding of human security, sustainable development and middlepowerism are the main factors of the Canadian Arctic environmental policy. The Arctic environment problems were mainly caused by the unreasonable development and the unlimited desire of resources in Arctic, which have huge impacts on human health and security, sustainable development model is the best way to coordinate economical development with environmental protection effectively in the Arctic, while the complicated Arctic issues drove Canada to participate in the Arctic cooperation flexibly as a middle power country,these three factors built up the thoughts of the Canadian Arctic environmental policy together by interacting and interrelating each other.Pursuing Arctic interests is the most fundamental starting point of the Canadian Arctic environmental policy. These interests include security interests and political interests and economical interests. As the Arctic region is very important for the entire global environment and the international strategic situation, t he Canadian Arctic environmental policy has been gradually getting mature combined the management of Arctic environmental problems with the realization of Arctic interests together properly, which is both ideological and practical. Not only has strengthened the Canadian Arctic sovereignty and political statements, safeguarded the Arctic economic interests, but also protected the Arctic environment effectively.The Canadian Arctic environmental policy includes the active participation in international programs and organizations such as "Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy" and "Arctic Council", and also includes a series of laws and measures created domestically by Canada, such as " Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act"and the "Arctic Environment Strategy ".Canada not only took the lead at the international level and promoted a lot of management of the Arctic environment actively, but also its domestic measures and laws were created very specific and executive. In addition, the Canadian Government has paid special attention to the Arctic indigenous peoples and the socio-economic development in its northern region, and also established its northern regional development strategy. However, the Canadian Arctic environmental policy has its own defects and shortcomings too, so it still needs to be improved. For instances, the implementation and the positiveness of some measures has been made are not fruitful enough, and Canada couldn't get enough effective helps from other countries in international level, besides, Canadian citizens'understanding of Arctic environmental protection has still got a long way to go.As the Arctic environmental policy is directly related to the sensitive topic of Arctic interests, therefore the Canadian Arctic environmental policy has been subjected to some objections and pressures from other circumpolar countries. By comparing Canada with United States, Russia and the Nordic countries in Arctic environmental policy, it's shown that different country has different position and different measures regarding different interests, which is the obstacle of the Canadian Arctic environmental policy and meanwhile also pointed out the breakthrough direction of its future. As the largest developing country in this world, China can't carry on the way with high consumption and high pollution that developed countries has gone through before, it is very important for the long-term development of China and Arctic environment and global climate about how to coordinate the relationship well between environmental protection and economical development. The Canadian Arctic environmental policy not only gave china a lot of environmental assistance, but also gave this non-Arctic country a wide range of inspiration to achieve its Arctic strategic interests.