The project is to demonstrate Canadian models of cooperation and decision-making, and apply them to help develop cooperative management plans for priority environmental problems in Russia.

This project is a follow-up to the Cooperative Federalism Project, managed by the Canadian Council of Ministers  of the Environment (CCME) in 1994-95. At that time, CCME assisted in showing various structures for shared, cooperative decision-making on the environment, between levels of government in Canada, including its own model.