Environment

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Canada is facing both a climate crisis and a housing crisis, and they are interconnected.

Choices we make about our homes impact the environment: their location and how much we need to use a car to get around, the heat source that they use, the materials used in their construction.

At the same time, the climate impacts our homes: when severe weather strikes and causes damage to our homes, we have no choice but to rebuild, and even if we escape unscathed, we still have to decide how much to change our lifestyles to adapt to a changing climate.

Andrew DeFazio, CMHC Climate Change Advisor, joins us to explore how we can climate-proof our housing strategy and home-proof our climate strategy.

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Greenness measures based on normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) including percentage of land area classed as green and average NDVI, by population centre and by population centre size category, for population centres in Canada and by province, annual.

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Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.

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This fact sheet, which provides an analysis of the Canadian environmental and clean technology products sector labour force characteristics, covers job shares, job growth, educational attainment and annual average wages and salaries by gender for the period 2012 to 2019.

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Environment fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis on key issues within the changing environment with regards to all Canadians. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: air and climate, pollution and waste, environmental protection and quality, and natural resources.

Description: Closing stock present value of reserves of natural gas, crude oil, subbituminous coal and lignite, bituminous coal, crude bitumen, potash, gold from gold mines, iron, miscellaneous minerals, and timber (dollars x 1,000,000).

Description: Closing stock of reserves of uranium, copper, gold from gold mines, lead, molybdenum, nickel, silver, zinc, crude bitumen, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, bituminous coal, subbituminous coal and lignite, sulphur, iron, and potash (tonnes unless otherwise noted).

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic showcases selected data from the salt marsh ecosystems accounts, which provides a foundation for the development of salt marsh ecosystem accounts and will serve as guidance for the further development of coastal and ocean ecosystem accounts as part of the Census of Environment. These accounts will measure ecosystem extent, condition and services and follow the internationally accepted environmental accounting standard.

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This technical paper provides a foundation for the development of salt marsh ecosystem accounts and will serve as guidance for the further development of coastal and ocean ecosystem accounts as part of the Census of Environment. These accounts will measure ecosystem extent, condition and services and follow the internationally accepted environmental accounting standard.

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Greenness measures based on normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) including percentage of land area classed as green and average NDVI, by population centre and by population centre size category, for population centres in Canada and by province, annual.

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Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.

Description: Closing stock present value of reserves of natural gas, crude oil, subbituminous coal and lignite, bituminous coal, crude bitumen, potash, gold from gold mines, iron, miscellaneous minerals, and timber (dollars x 1,000,000).

Description: Closing stock of reserves of uranium, copper, gold from gold mines, lead, molybdenum, nickel, silver, zinc, crude bitumen, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids, bituminous coal, subbituminous coal and lignite, sulphur, iron, and potash (tonnes unless otherwise noted).

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Protected and conserved area of Canadian ocean water layers and selected coastal and ocean floor ecosystems, by marine bioregion, conservation and protection category and management category.

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Number of regionally and municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories.

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Number of municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories, by urban and rural and population size.

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Number of regionally and municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories by year of completed construction. Values are presented in numbers and percentages.

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Year of completed construction of municipally owned solid waste assets for all provinces and territories, by urban and rural and population size. Values are presented in numbers and percentages.

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Distribution by physical condition rating of regionally and municipally owned solid waste assets.

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Canada is facing both a climate crisis and a housing crisis, and they are interconnected.

Choices we make about our homes impact the environment: their location and how much we need to use a car to get around, the heat source that they use, the materials used in their construction.

At the same time, the climate impacts our homes: when severe weather strikes and causes damage to our homes, we have no choice but to rebuild, and even if we escape unscathed, we still have to decide how much to change our lifestyles to adapt to a changing climate.

Andrew DeFazio, CMHC Climate Change Advisor, joins us to explore how we can climate-proof our housing strategy and home-proof our climate strategy.

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This fact sheet, which provides an analysis of the Canadian environmental and clean technology products sector labour force characteristics, covers job shares, job growth, educational attainment and annual average wages and salaries by gender for the period 2012 to 2019.

Description:

Environment fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis on key issues within the changing environment with regards to all Canadians. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: air and climate, pollution and waste, environmental protection and quality, and natural resources.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This infographic showcases selected data from the salt marsh ecosystems accounts, which provides a foundation for the development of salt marsh ecosystem accounts and will serve as guidance for the further development of coastal and ocean ecosystem accounts as part of the Census of Environment. These accounts will measure ecosystem extent, condition and services and follow the internationally accepted environmental accounting standard.

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This technical paper provides a foundation for the development of salt marsh ecosystem accounts and will serve as guidance for the further development of coastal and ocean ecosystem accounts as part of the Census of Environment. These accounts will measure ecosystem extent, condition and services and follow the internationally accepted environmental accounting standard.

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The series covers environment accounts and indicators, environmental surveys, spatial environmental information and other research related to environmental statistics. The technical paper series is intended to stimulate discussion on a range of environmental topics.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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Statistics Canada regularly prepares presentations with statistical findings about the country’s economy, society and environment. These presentations may be intended for conferences, meetings with stakeholders, or other events held throughout the year to provide Statistics Canada with an opportunity to promote the role of official statistics and to better understand data users’ needs. This series provides online access to these presentations as well as new presentations created to help communicate research findings on a wide range of subjects to a broad audience.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This reference guide is intended for users of the Survey of Environmental Goods and Services (SEGS). The tables indicate which technologies and services were included in SEGS.

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The Ecological Land Classification (ELC) is Statistics Canada's official classification for ecological areas in Canada.

The ELC was developed to enable the production of integrated statistics for ecological areas. It is a hierarchical framework that classifies ecological areas or ecosystems and that incorporates all major components of ecosystems: air, water land and biota. All boundaries in the ecological framework are matched to soil landscape polygons from the Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC).

There are 15 ecozones at the top of the ecological land classification hierarchy. They cover the entire terrestrial extent of Canada.

These ecozones are subdivided into 53 ecoprovinces that contain 194 ecoregions, which can be further subdivided into 1,027 separate ecological units called ecodistricts.

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This product contains boundary files and user documentation for environmental analysis using geographical information systems (GIS).

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The Methodological Guide: Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounting provides readers with information on environmental-economic accounts at Statistics Canada. It provides links to produced data and publications and describes the concepts, sources, and methods used to compile them. Topics include ecosystem accounting, asset accounts (natural resources in physical and monetary terms), physical flow accounts (energy and water use, and waste and greenhouse gas emissions), environmental activity statistics (expenditures on environmental protection), and the applications and extensions of those accounts (attribution of physical flows to final demand and intensity measures).

This user's guide has been developed by the Environmental Statistics Program to facilitate access to environmental-economic accounting information throughout Statistics Canada and to explain its linkage with international standards, the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting. This guide is continually being updated to maintain its relevance.

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These educational resources provide instructors with innovative material, lesson plans, handouts and assignments to accompany the 2011 Households and the Environment report (catalogue no. 11-526-X). The materials and activities were developed for Statistics Canada by Enable Education.

Resources were developed for an elementary school audience. Curriculum links include grades 1 to 3 mathematics, social studies, science and technology, as well as arts, language arts, and health and safety.

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These educational resources provide instructors with innovative material, lesson plans, handouts and assignments to accompany the 2011 Households and the Environment report (catalogue no. 11-526-X). The materials and activities were developed for Statistics Canada by Enable Education.

Resources were developed for a secondary school audience. Curriculum links include grades 9 to 12 science, business, environmental science, mathematics, with cross-curricular links to family studies, language arts, technology education and visual arts.

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These educational resources provide instructors with innovative materials, lesson plans and case study assignments based on environmental statistics produced by Statistics Canada. Resources have been developed for educators at the elementary, high school and post-secondary levels.

Curriculum links include grades 1 to 12 geography, social studies, biology, mathematics, science and economics, as well as introductory post-secondary geography and environmental science.

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These educational resources provide instructors with innovative materials, lesson plans and case study assignments to accompany the 2013 release of the Human Activity and the Environment article, “Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada.” The materials and activities were developed by the Critical Thinking Consortium, a non-profit, registered association of 55 educational partners—school districts, schools, teacher associations and other educational organizations.

Resources were developed for a junior high school, senior high school and introductory post-secondary audience. Curriculum links include grades 7 to 12 geography, social studies, biology, science and economics, as well as introductory post-secondary geography and environmental science.

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Environment Accounts and Statistics Division is Statistics Canada's focal point for the collection, analysis and dissemination of environmental information. This reference guide briefly describes the division's programs, as well as all publications and electronic products offered on a quarterly, annual, biennial and occasional basis.

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Quantifying how Canada's water yield has changed over time is an important component of the water accounts maintained by Statistics Canada. This study evaluates the movement in the series of annual water yield estimates for Southern Canada from 1971 to 2004. We estimated the movement in the series using a trend-cycle approach and found that water yield for southern Canada has generally decreased over the period of observation.