This Sustainable Development Strategy sets out sustainable development priorities and establishes goals and targets focused on: supporting a healthier and more sustainable food system; ensuring clean water and sanitation services; advancing reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples and taking action on inequality; reducing waste and ensuring transition to zero-emission vehicles; taking action on climate change and its impacts; protecting and recovering species, for conservation of Canadian biodiversity. The vision of this Strategy is to be a trusted, science-based regulator that safeguards food, animals and plants through a One Health approach; supports Canada’s economic, social and environmental health; and improves the quality of life for future generations, in order better manage risks and integrate social, economic and environmental considerations into sustainable development. The Strategy aims at mitigating risks to Canada’s plant resource base, which is integral to a safe and accessible food supply, as well as to public health and environmental sustainability. This goal is achieved by: regulating agricultural and forestry products, and other products that may be pathways for pests; mitigating risks to the plant resource base (including crops and forests) from regulated pests; regulating the quality and integrity of seeds, as well as the safety of plants with novel traits, fertilisers and supplements; managing plant health emergencies and incidents. The Strategy aims to enhance the climate resilience of the agricultural and horticultural plant varieties by encouraging increased investment in plant breeding in Canada and through the Plant Breeders’ Rights intellectual property protection. The goal of the mitigation of the risk to Canada’s animal resource base, animal feeds and animal products is achieved by: mitigating risks to Canada’s animals (including livestock and aquatic animals) from regulated diseases; managing animal disease emergencies and incidents; mitigating and managing risks to livestock and derived food products associated with feed; promoting animal welfare, and protecting against deliberate threats to the animal-resource base. In order to support safe and secure food, including from climate-related foodborne hazards and impacts to traditional foods, the Strategy provides the following measures: preventing food contamination, hazards, and misrepresentation; encouraging processing, sale and trade of traditional foods, which will support to address regional food insecurity issues; improving labelling requirements for consumer protection. The Strategy also concerns actions to address climate change impacts and the negative impacts of pollution to biodiversity and ecosystems.
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