About the Club

CACOR’s Vision and Mission are:

VISION

Canada becomes a nation that effectively restores and sustains its ecosystems, all species, and serves as a model to others.

 MISSION

CACOR’s mission is to encourage and enable Canadians to explore, understand, and advocate for the sustainability of the biosphere, its species, and human wellbeing, through research and communication about the issues that compose our planetary crisis.

Date of Registration as a Canadian Charity:

The Canadian Association for the Club of Rome (CACOR) was founded in 1974 as one of the first of now more than thirty national associations affiliated with the International Club of Rome.  CACOR is autonomous, independent, and nonpartisan.  Its main objective is to further the sustainability of the global ecosystem including the survival of humanity.

Purpose and Objectives

Promote Knowledge and understanding among all segments of the Canadian public on the nature of world problems and the need to develop new policies, attitudes, and courses of action.

Find solutions:  CACOR is a catalyst for study and research into problems of human well-being and future survival.  Its focus is on the interactions and interdependence of social, economic, technological, and environmental components of global and local problems.   The objective is to help define alternative ways to meet critical needs at all scales.

Focus on Canada within the international context: CACOR concentrates on Canada’s situation relative to global problems and solutions.  It seeks to be a catalyst for the development of Canadian solutions and to advancing Canada’s contribution to the sustainability of humanity on the planet.

Activities

CACOR and its members and associates pursue a range of activities related to implementation of the purpose and objectives of CACOR.  These include regular meetings where distinguished experts and thinkers address aspects of the global problematique and potential solutions, discussion groups on specific issues of interest to members, partnering other organizations who have similar goals in staging events, sponsoring publications on key issues and undertaking active lobbying, and interventions aimed at getting better information and science and systematic thinking into the decision process–from international to local.  CACOR also maintains a website designed to be a resource for those who are interested in access to information and informed discussion on global issues and local and national implications.

Available Discussion Groups:

There are six active discussion groups that any CACOR member may join.   There are more groups, but they are specifically established for committee work, event notifications, archival, board of directors, and others.    To access these most active six, please contact the “owner.”

[email protected]              – owner – Art Hunter [email protected]