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
clients 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 worlds 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 green corporate performance. Leading-edge companies are
ensuring that environmental, social and economic issues
(the triple 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. RFIs 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 worlds 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 oxides (NOx).
POPs and metals: We offer expertise on devising plans to address
life cycle planning (cradle-to-grave management solutions) for
persistent toxic and bioaccumulative pollutants subject to long-
range air transport at the facility level (management practices;
pollution prevention; process changes) and for governmental
clients.
Our work on Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs, (PCBs, DDT,
chlordane, dioxins and furans, etc.) and heavy metals (mercury;
lead) includes assistance with development of domestic and multi-
national action plans for POPs. Our services include provision
of advice on environmentally sound technologies (for example,
for destruction of PCBs); alternatives to these substances in
processes/products; monitoring and assessment practices, and
risk communications.
RFIs experience includes assistance to the North American
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) with development
of a framing resolution that sets forth the direction for North
American cooperative work on POPs and other persistent
substances that are subject to long-range transport. RFI has
also helped facilitate development of North American action
plans on several POPs and mercury.
Climate Change: RFI is well known in Canada and internationally
for in-depth knowledge of climate change policy, trans-boundary
air pollution issues, and the policy instruments to address
greenhouse gases and air pollution issues, including technology
transfer. RFI has a strong understanding of climate change
issues in developed and developing countries. Recent
international and Canadian projects that we have completed in
this area include the Canada-China Cooperation Project to Survey
Technology Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Reductions in China
and Canadian Supply Capabilities, a review of the National
Action Program on Climate Change for the Canadian Council of
Ministers of the Environment, and the multi-stakeholder
consultative Evaluation of Control Options for Fossil-Fuel Power
Sector Air Emissions for Canadian Ministers of Health and the
Environment.
Water: Water is recognized to be an increasingly important
factor in global and national security at a time when population
density, agricultural and other practices (deforestation, waste
disposal, etc.) are diminishing the quality and quantity of
water available for drinking and irrigation.
RFI assists governments, corporate clients and indigenous groups
with effective watershed management planning, inclusive of
sustainability issues pertaining to rural areas (groundwater
sustainability in the context of irrigation and pollution) and
to large urban centres (infrastructure pertaining to water
quantity and quality; sustainable industrial practices; delivery
and finance mechanisms).
Consultation, Facilitation and Risk Communication
Engaging stakeholders is key to developing and implementing
successful environmental management and planning systems. RFI
helps clients conduct focus groups and surveys to define
interests and clarify issues. We facilitate public engagement
processes and can help clients to determine which consultation
models best fit their needs. We also help train clients to
develop strategic communication strategies and to hone their
internal and external skills so that they can communicate their
objectives with consistency and confidence.
RFI Corporate Profile
RFIs associates are global leaders whose vision and insight
ensure we are offering our clients the latest and very best in
advice and technical and science expertise. Our staff brings
engineering, geology, environmental sciences, economic, public
policy and administration, managerial and facilitation expertise
together to assure our clients that they will receive
comprehensive, as well as targeted expertise.
Company Details
Year Established:
1989
Number of Employees:
18
Company Information
Thomas Conway
Title:
President
Area of Responsibility:
Management Executive
Telephone:
(613) 235-4343
Fax:
(613) 235-9916
Email:
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Rita Fung
Title:
Admin/Exec Assistant
Area of Responsibility:
Administrative Services
Telephone:
(613) 235-4343
Fax:
(613) 235-9916
Email:
Click Here
Products
Corporate Sustainable Development Plans.
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Other Environmental Services
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
clients 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 worlds 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 green corporate performance. Leading-edge companies are
ensuring that environmental, social and economic issues
(the triple 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. RFIs 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 worlds 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 oxides (NOx).
POPs and metals: We offer expertise on devising plans to address
life cycle planning (cradle-to-grave management solutions) for
persistent toxic and bioaccumulative pollutants subject to long-
range air transport at the facility level (management practices;
pollution prevention; process changes) and for governmental
clients.
Our work on Persistent Organic Pollutants or POPs, (PCBs, DDT,
chlordane, dioxins and furans, etc.) and heavy metals (mercury;
lead) includes assistance with development of domestic and multi-
national action plans for POPs. Our services include provision
of advice on environmentally sound technologies (for example,
for destruction of PCBs); alternatives to these substances in
processes/products; monitoring and assessment practices, and
risk communications.
RFIs experience includes assistance to the North American
Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) with development
of a framing resolution that sets forth the direction for North
American cooperative work on POPs and other persistent
substances that are subject to long-range transport. RFI has
also helped facilitate development of North American action
plans on several POPs and mercury.
Climate Change: RFI is well known in Canada and internationally
for in-depth knowledge of climate change policy, trans-boundary
air pollution issues, and the policy instruments to address
greenhouse gases and air pollution issues, including technology
transfer. RFI has a strong understanding of climate change
issues in developed and developing countries. Recent
international and Canadian projects that we have completed in
this area include the Canada-China Cooperation Project to Survey
Technology Requirements for Greenhouse Gas Reductions in China
and Canadian Supply Capabilities, a review of the National
Action Program on Climate Change for the Canadian Council of
Ministers of the Environment, and the multi-stakeholder
consultative Evaluation of Control Options for Fossil-Fuel Power
Sector Air Emissions for Canadian Ministers of Health and the
Environment.
Water: Water is recognized to be an increasingly important
factor in global and national security at a time when population
density, agricultural and other practices (deforestation, waste
disposal, etc.) are diminishing the quality and quantity of
water available for drinking and irrigation.
RFI assists governments, corporate clients and indigenous groups
with effective watershed management planning, inclusive of
sustainability issues pertaining to rural areas (groundwater
sustainability in the context of irrigation and pollution) and
to large urban centres (infrastructure pertaining to water
quantity and quality; sustainable industrial practices; delivery
and finance mechanisms).
Consultation, Facilitation and Risk Communication
Engaging stakeholders is key to developing and implementing
successful environmental management and planning systems. RFI
helps clients conduct focus groups and surveys to define
interests and clarify issues. We facilitate public engagement
processes and can help clients to determine which consultation
models best fit their needs. We also help train clients to
develop strategic communication strategies and to hone their
internal and external skills so that they can communicate their
objectives with consistency and confidence.
RFI Corporate Profile
RFIs associates are global leaders whose vision and insight
ensure we are offering our clients the latest and very best in
advice and technical and science expertise. Our staff brings
engineering, geology, environmental sciences, economic, public
policy and administration, managerial and facilitation expertise
together to assure our clients that they will receive
comprehensive, as well as targeted expertise.