Energy and Environment

高效和可持续的能源供应对加拿大经济的繁荣至关重要。目前，满足国际气候变化缓解目标的压力，以及满足日益增长的能源需求和满足环境法规的当地需求，是加拿大在管理能源系统方面面临的最大挑战。该CRC项目的目标是开发一套空间分布的能源和环境系统分析和风险管理方法，并将其应用于加拿大多个地区。其结果将有助于防止能源和环境系统中的复杂性以及阻碍可持续能源发展的障碍。因此，可以为制定具有巨大社会经济影响的理想政策提供科学依据。

Efficient and sustainable energy supplies are essential to the prosperity of Canadianeconomy. Presently, pressures to meet international goals for climate-changemitigation, combined with local needs to satisfy increasing energy demands and meet environmental regulations, represent Canada's greatest challenges in managing energysystems. The objective of this CRC program is to develop a set of spatially-distributed energy-and-environmental systems-analysis and risk-managementmethodologies and apply them to multiple Canadian regions. The results will helpreveal complexities in energy-and-environmental systems and obstacles that hindersustainable energy development. Thus, scientific bases can be provided for formulatingdesired policies that are of enormous socio-economic implications.