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  • 1. Physical flow account for greenhouse gas emissions: Interactive tool
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020008
    Description: This interactive dashboard offers Canadians the ability to graph greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trends over time for selected industries and household categories. It also displays total GHG emissions for the top five emitting sectors for a selected geography and year and shows the year-over-year changes in total GHG emissions over time.
    Release date: 2026-05-07
  • 2. Waste materials diverted, by type and by source
    Table: 38-10-0179-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Materials diverted by type and by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every year. The unit of measure is tonnes.
    Release date: 2026-04-28
  • 3. Business enterprise in-house research and development expenditures on environmental and clean technology products, by industry and geographic region
    Table: 38-10-0180-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table provides business enterprises' monetary estimates on research and development performed in-house on environmental and clean technology products, within Canada, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and geographic region.
    Release date: 2026-04-21
  • 4. In-house research and development activities related to the environmental and clean technology products by industry
    Table: 38-10-0181-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table provides business enterprises' percentage estimates on research and development activities performed in-house on environmental and clean technology products, within Canada, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
    Release date: 2026-04-21
  • 5. Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with various aspects of the Canadian economy
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024016
    Description: The production of goods and the delivery of services result in energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. This visualization provides insights into the relationship between Canadian economic activity and the environment by including estimates of Canadian GHG emissions and energy use.
    Release date: 2026-04-09
  • 6. Housing Economic Account, environmental perspective
    Table: 36-10-0690-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: The environmental perspective for the Housing Economic Account provides users detailed information on emissions related to residential construction and clean technology involved. The table breaks down greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gas emissions per value added, and clean technology input for residential construction for Canada and provinces.
    Release date: 2026-04-09
  • 7. Natural resources satellite account, environmental perspective
    Table: 38-10-0140-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Direct energy use (terajoules) and direct greenhouse gas emissions (kilotonnes) associated with the natural resources and the downstream natural resources sectors, by sector.
    Release date: 2026-04-02
  • 8. Natural resources satellite account, indicators
    Table: 38-10-0285-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Quarterly
    Description: This table contains natural resources satellite account data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography; Prices (2 items: Current prices; 2017 constant prices); Sectors; Sub-sectors; Indicators; Commodities.
    Release date: 2026-04-02
  • 9. Census of Environment Ecosystem Profile Explorer
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2026007
    Description: The ecosystem profile explorer is designed to provide users with a single, integrated view of the data produced by the Census of Environment. Users can select an area on the map and explore the ecosystem extent, condition and services data linked to ecological, drainage or marine areas. The latest data tables will be made available in this tool as new releases occur.
    Release date: 2026-03-30
  • 10. Change in selected climate variables since 1971, by ecoprovince
    Table: 38-10-0197-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Long-term changes in air temperature and precipitation over the period beginning in 1971, by ecoprovince. Starting in 2000, estimates are reported at five-year intervals. Changes are expressed in degrees Celsius for air temperature and in millimetres for precipitation.
    Release date: 2026-03-30
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  • 31. Direct plus indirect energy and greenhouse gas emissions intensity, by industry
    Table: 38-10-0098-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Intensity of energy use is measured in gigajoules per thousand dollars of production. Intensity of greenhouse gas emissions is measured in tonnes per thousand dollars of production. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.
    Release date: 2026-02-05
  • 32. Spending by Canadian businesses on environmental protection
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023018
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical values spent by Canadian businesses to protect the environment. The interactive map and charts allow the user to compare and analyze capital expenditures and operating expenses made on different environmental protection and resources management activities. The information is available by Canadian region and by industry.

    This web-based application is updated annually as soon as the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 33. Capital and operating expenditures on environmental activities by industry
    Table: 38-10-0130-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of capital and operating expenditures on environmental protection activities by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) at the Canada level. The unit of measure is dollars (x1,000,000).
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 34. Capital and operating expenditures on environmental activities by geographic region
    Table: 38-10-0131-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of capital and operating expenditures on environmental protection activities for Canada, provinces and territories. The unit of measure is dollars (x1,000,000).
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 35. Environmental protection activities by industry
    Table: 38-10-0132-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of the percentage of establishments that reported expenditures in environmental protection activities by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for Canada, provinces and territories. The unit of measure is percent.
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 36. Capital and operating expenditures on pollution prevention and pollution abatement and control by industry
    Table: 38-10-0133-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of capital and operating expenditures on pollution prevention (integrated processes) and pollution abatement and control (end-of-pipe processes) by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) and environmental protection activity at the Canada level. The unit of measure is dollars (x1,000,000).
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 37. Capital and operating expenditures on pollution prevention and pollution abatement and control by geographic region
    Table: 38-10-0134-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of capital and operating expenditures on pollution prevention (integrated processes) and pollution abatement and control (end-of-pipe processes) by environmental protection activity, for Canada, provinces and territories. The unit of measure is dollars (x1,000,000).
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 38. Drivers to the purchase of technologies related to environmental protection by industry
    Table: 38-10-0135-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of the percentage of establishments that reported drivers to the purchase of technologies, systems or equipment related to environmental protection by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for Canada, provinces and territories. The unit of measure is percent.
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 39. Obstacles to the purchase of technologies related to environmental protection by industry
    Table: 38-10-0136-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of the percentage of establishments that reported obstacles to the purchase of technologies, systems or equipment related to environmental protection by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for Canada, provinces and territories. The unit of measure is percent.
    Release date: 2026-01-27
  • 40. Environmental management practices by industry
    Table: 38-10-0137-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual estimates of the percentage of establishments that reported environmental management practices by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) for Canada, provinces and territories. The unit of measure is percent.
    Release date: 2026-01-27
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  • 101. Study: Canadian industry and environmental protection 2006 to 2016 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201935222205
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-12-18
  • 102. Wastewater-based estimates of cannabis and drug use in Canada: Analytical methods and supplementary information Archived
    Articles and reports: 13-605-X201900100011
    Description:

    This document is a supplement to The Daily article, Wastewater-based estimates of cannabis and drug use in Canada: Pilot-Test Results (citation). It describes the data analysis supporting the results of the article, including the statistical testing and the treatment of outliers and missing data. Additionally, for each of the parameters required to estimate drug consumption, the document provides the values and uncertainty that were used and references to the literature supporting those values.

    Release date: 2019-08-26
  • 103. Wastewater-based Estimates of Cannabis and Drug Use in Canada: Pilot test Detailed Results Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2019004
    Description:

    Legalization of cannabis production, sale, and use in Canada on October 17, 2018 serves as the context for the implementation of the largest wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) pilot test conducted to date in North America (covering 8.4 million people) and the first by a national statistical agency. Wastewater samples were collected in five large urban centres across Canada over the period March 2018 to February 2019. In addition to presenting the results by month and by city for certain drugs, this document presents preliminary estimates of total use of cannabis, methamphetamine, and cocaine.

    Release date: 2019-08-26
  • 104. Portrait of environmental and clean technology jobs in Canada, 2017 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019058
    Description: This infographic presents the 2017 portrait of the Environmental and Clean Technology jobs in Canada. It displays data per workers characteristics (education, age, and gender), and per jobs characteristics (wage and occupation).
    Release date: 2019-08-19
  • 105. Municipal Wastewater Systems in Canada, 2017 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019023
    Description:

    This infographic presents the 2017 results for the volumes of wastewater (sewage) processed by Municipal Wastewater Systems in Canada. The infographic displays the volumes (in millions of cubic metres) of wastewater (sewage) discharged in each province by treatment category. The categories of treatment are primary, secondary, tertiary and no treatment. The volumes discharged from combined sewers is also displayed for each province.

    Release date: 2019-06-25
  • 106. Environmental management practices in Canadian enterprises, 2016 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2019003
    Description: Environmental management practices are protocols that businesses adopt to reduce their impact on the environment. This fact sheet features the most common environmental management practices per industry group, per size of establishment and per employment share. It also highlights four of the most frequently used environmental practices (environmental management system, energy audit (past 3 years), energy management or monitoring system and greenhouse gas emissions inventory).
    Release date: 2019-06-19
  • 107. Spring flooding in selected communities across Canada: Factors impacting the ability to respond to natural disasters 2019 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201916521284
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-06-14
  • 108. Potable water use in Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2019022
    Description:

    This infographic presents results for total and residential, average daily per capita potable water use in Canada, from the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017 Biennial Drinking Water Plants Survey. The infographic displays the various uses of potable water produced by drinking water systems in the economy, which includes the residential sector. The infographic also presents the various possible uses of residential potable water.

    Release date: 2019-06-11
  • 109. British Columbia’s forest fires, 2018 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2019002
    Description: This fact sheet presents forest fire data for British Columbia and discusses various costs and impacts associated with the record area burned in 2018. For example, it covers fire suppression costs, forest fire related greenhouse gas emissions, the Air Quality Health Index, and potentially affected populations, as well as potential impacts on other industries and on ecosystem services.
    Release date: 2019-05-29
  • 110. Impact of spring flooding in key areas across Canada Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201913721123
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2019-05-17
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Reference (52) (10 to 20 of 52 results)

  • 11. Urban greenness: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024004
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the urban greenness geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2024-11-21
  • 12. Water yield: Geospatial files
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024001
    Description: This product contains gridded datasets of annual and 30-year average estimates of water yield. Tracking water yield—an estimate of renewable water supply derived from National Water Data Archive (HYDAT) streamflow data—provides information to help understand water resources available for human use and ecosystem needs. Annual datasets are available for the years 1971 to 2021 and cover southern Canada. Thirty-year averages are available for 1971-2000, 1981-2010, and 1991-2020. They cover the terrestrial and freshwater extent of Canada, except for the Arctic Archipelago.
    Release date: 2024-09-19
  • 13. Water yield: Data product specifications
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024002
    Description: This product contains specifications intended for users of the water yield geospatial files. This document provides important technical information for users and links to methodology.
    Release date: 2024-09-19
  • 14. Contiguously Settled Areas: Boundaries and User Documentation
    Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2023001
    Description: This product contains contiguously settled area (CSA) boundaries for a subset of Canadian population centres for 2010 and 2020 with user documentation. The CSA boundaries are derived from land cover data and represent the geographic extent of settled areas based on their physical footprint on the landscape. The boundaries can be used for reference, mapping and spatial analysis of settled areas and urban ecosystems. The CSA boundaries are created and maintained under the umbrella of the Census of Environment, and will support Statistics Canada's ecosystem accounting efforts.
    Release date: 2023-10-27
  • 15. Ecological Land Classification
    Classification: 12-607-X
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2018-01-23
  • 16. Methodological Guide: Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounting
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-509-X
    Description: 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.

    Release date: 2016-04-22
  • 17. Environmental Statistics: Teacher’s Kits and Educational Resources
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 18. Households and the Environment Survey – Elementary level teacher’s kit Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015001
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 19. Households and the Environment Survey – Secondary level teacher’s kit Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015002
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 20. What is the value of an ecosystem? Teacher’s Kit for Human Activity and the Environment 2013: Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2014001
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2014-09-24

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