Ontario – Ottawa – Ottawa
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www.rfigroup.com
Ontario
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Operating name: Resource Futures International
RFI-GES Inc. and Cost-Effective Environmental Solutions
Resource Futures International is an environmental consulting
firm that provides quality and cost-effective environmental
solutions to government and private-sector clients in the
Americas and Asia. Our company is known for taking a
comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to analysing complex
environmental problems. We devise durable environmental
solutions that incorporate sustainable practices and enhance our
client€™s performance within the global marketplace based on
international and locally appropriate standards.
Established in 1989 and headquartered in Ottawa, Canada, our
firm combines the best of North American expertise and
technologies to bring clients throughout the world€™s most
rapidly developing regions the best and latest in environmental
project and process management and knowledge systems. RFI then
helps clients to identify how best to adapt and tailor such
information to their particular needs.
Our clients are governments, companies, international
organizations and community-based groups
RFI works with: § Companies to improve their environmental decisions,
processes and products;
§ Governments to develop policies, programs and
investments that promote best environmental practices;
§ International organisations to develop strategies and
projects and to manage environmental negotiation processes; and
§ Stakeholders - the public, non-governmental
organisations, indigenous groups (including First Nations) and
others to promote understanding of sustainable development
issues and advance mutual interests.
RFI Core Expertise
RFI has distinguished itself in seven core areas: § Strategic planning for sustainability;
§ Policy analysis;
§ Multilateral Agreements (environment and trade);
§ Capacity building;
§ Large project management (defining, developing and
managing);
§ Environmental Assessments (domestic and international)
§ Air and water (POPs; criteria pollutants; climate
change; watershed management)
Strategic Planning for Sustainability
RFI provides the tools that enable clients to assess, integrate
and enhance sustainable practices within their institutions and
programs so that they will be better positioned to meet domestic
and global demands for sustainability.
Environmental concerns and regulatory measures are raising
expectations, both nationally and internationally, with regard
to €œgreen€? corporate performance. Leading-edge companies are
ensuring that environmental, social and economic issues
(the €œtriple bottom line€? of sustainability) are integrated in
their long-term strategic planning. Equally significant, the
private sector, through its investment and technology decisions,
has tremendous potential to influence and advance
environmentally-sustainable practices on both national and
global scales. RFI€™s expertise includes a thorough knowledge of
the interface between trade and the environment in the context
of sustainable development.
Policy Analysis
RFI helps governments and private sector clients design,
implement and evaluate: § International and domestic environmental laws and
policies;
§ Environmental regulations;
§ Policies and policy instruments;
§ Environmental assessments (EAs); and
§ Best environmental practices for governments and
corporate clients (ISO 14,000 and other environmental management
systems; pollution prevention; green labelling; etc.)
Multilateral Environmental Agreements, Finance and Trade
Increasingly, clients in the world€™s fastest developing regions
recognize that environmental demands occur in a global setting
and require familiarity and expertise with global environmental
instruments. RFI has extensive international experience
assisting clients with: § Negotiations for development of Multilateral
Environmental Agreements (MEAs);
§ Development of country- and company-specific
implementation strategies for MEAs; and
§ Adaptation of best practices to assist government and
private-sector clients in meeting international standards and
remaining globally competitive (ISO 14000; pollution prevention
and green product policies; and other voluntary measures;
environmental laws and policy assessment and development).
Capacity Building
RFI helps clients in the public and private sector to build
their institutional capacity to meet their environmental
commitments and bolster efforts aimed at poverty alleviation and
basic health. We offer sound and creative solutions that help
our clients maximize their intellectual and technical capital
through incorporation of cost-effective approaches. Our firm has
extensive experience with building government and corporate
capacity to meet international commitments pertaining to climate
change and persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
We assist our government clients to build capacity in and across
agencies and departments in a manner that will help them to
achieve long-term objectives for sustainability. These solutions
range from building capacity on broader, long-term issues, such
as environmental educational capacity, to targeted approaches to
building managerial, strategic planning, science and technical
capacity in the near, as well as long-term. Our national and
international government clients include federal, regional,
provincial/state, and municipal governments.
We assist our corporate clients to identify and integrate
sustainable practices that are environmentally, economically and
socially sound in their management, production processes and
products. We assist companies to enter international markets,
especially in developing countries and those with emerging
economies, by identifying opportunities that are compatible with
their strengths, client groups and investors. We also help
clients to facilitate business and partnership contacts and to
initiate, negotiate and finalize joint-venture arrangements.
Large Project Management
RFI offers large project expertise, including field-level
management of environmental capacity and institutional
development projects. Our involvement extends from designing
projects to providing leadership for multi-disciplinary teams,
staffing and sub-contracting, managing day-to-day activities,
administering budgets, and monitoring and reporting on project
results. Our wide range of projects attests to our success in
helping clients understand and implement the principles of
sustainable development in the context of well-managed projects.
Environmental Assessments (EAs)
RFI is widely acknowledged as a leading Canadian and
international EA policy institution. We help clients to identify
environmental risks and impacts and adopt effective solutions
that prevent costly problems down the road. Our extensive
experience includes conducting and reviewing assessments,
developing EA procedures, and strengthening institutional and EA
capacity. We have undertaken EA projects pertaining to water
resources; infrastructure; major transportation (including
railway routes) ; fish habitat; energy development (thermal and
hydropower); agriculture; pulp and paper; mineral and petroleum
developments; waste management operations; tourism and park
development; transfer of First Nation lands (Canada); and sale
of federal properties, to name a few. We have extensive
knowledge and experience with international, federal and
provincial/state regulatory environments.
Air and Water
RFI helps clients develop strategic plans and policy instruments
and multi-disciplinary tools that build their capacity to
effectively measure and address air and water pollution,
including assistance to individual facilities, government
jurisdictions and public agencies working to improve quality of
life in large urban centres, and national and international
organizations responsible for air and watershed management.
Air: We help governments (federal/state/municipal levels) to
shape effective strategic policies and plans for large urban
centres that will help them measure and reduce inhaleable
particles (PM 10 and PM 2.5); ozone (O3), sulphur dioxide (S02),
carbon monoxide (CO) and nitrogen ox
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