Environment
Key indicators
Selected geographical area:Canada
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8.6 million metric tonnes
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3.1 million metric tonnes
More environment indicators
Selected geographical area:Canada
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$15.3 billion
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$20.2 billion
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-5.2%
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3.75 gigajoules per $1,000
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0.26 tonnes per $1,000
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3.99 terajoules per million dollars of real GDP-1.9%
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0.28 kilotonnes per million dollars of real GDP-2.6%
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61.4 gigajoules-5.2%
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2.8 tonnes-5.0%
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$33.3 billion7.8%
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Volume of untreated wastewater discharged in Canada (including combined sewer overflows) - Canada
(2023)215 million cubic metres -
15.7 cubic metres per thousand dollars of real GDP
Subject
- Limit subject index to Air and climate
- Limit subject index to Environmental protection, technology and practices
- Limit subject index to Environmental-economic accounts
- Limit subject index to Land, oceans, ecosystems and biodiversity
- Limit subject index to Natural disasters
- Limit subject index to Solid waste and hazardous substances
- Limit subject index to Water and wastewater
- Limit subject index to Other content related to Environment
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- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2020008Description: 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
- Table: 38-10-0179-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0180-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0181-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2024016Description: 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
- Table: 36-10-0690-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0140-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0285-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: QuarterlyDescription: 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
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2026007Description: 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
- Table: 38-10-0197-01Frequency: OccasionalDescription: 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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Data (402)
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- Thematic map: 16F0021XDescription: In early 1998, 3 successive storm fronts dropped as much as 110 millimeters of freezing rain through parts of Eastern Canada. This ice storm had a notable impact on the hundreds of thousands of people who suffered electricity outages which, in some cases, lasted longer than one month. But other effects were also felt and continue to be: human lives were lost, livestock perished, ecosystems were damaged, economies were disrupted, emergency response systems were strained beyond capacity. In short, Ice Storm 98 was an event that will not soon be forgotten.
This Statistics Canada publication gathers a series of six annotated maps and tables illustrating some of the impact the meteorological event had as it stormed through the St. Lawrence River Valley: population, employment, retail sales, vegetation cover, dairy cows and sugar maple taps are illustrated and briefly discussed.
Release date: 1998-05-01 - 402. Environment Industry,1995, Preliminary Data ArchivedTable: 16F0007XDescription:
The federal government's Canadian Environmental Industry Strategy consists of a number of initiatives to achieve a cleaner environment and a stronger environmental industry. Statistics Canada received funding from Industry Canada, under Initiative 8 of the strategy, to develop a national statistical database on the environment industry. Statistics Canada began a program consisting of new surveys, modifications to existing surveys and integration of statistics from various components of its economic statistics framework.
The environment "industry" does not exist as an explicit element in any existing classification. This is not surprising, because the environment industry consists of business involved in activities that span a number of different industries in the Standard Industrial Classification. Attempts had been made to identify environmental goods and services in existing classifications, but without appreciable success. It was necessary to develop new ways and new tools to obtain the information. These methods are outlined.
A major objective of the approach adopted by Statistics Canada is to provide sufficient detail to permit comparability of the results with other countries and to satisfy a variety of data needs.
Release date: 1997-06-01
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Analysis (261)
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- Articles and reports: 11-626-X2019008Description: This article in the Economic Insights series examines how accounting for greenhouse gas emissions as part of economic activity changes the measurement of productivity growth.Release date: 2019-05-08
- 112. Environmentally Adjusted Multifactor Productivity Growth for the Canadian Manufacturing Sector ArchivedArticles and reports: 11F0019M2019013Description: The need to measure both the desirable outputs (goods and services) and the undesirable outputs (emissions of greenhouse gases [GHGs] and criteria air contaminants [CACs]) from economic activity is becoming increasingly important as economic performance and environmental performance become ever more intertwined. Standard measures of multifactor productivity (MFP) growth provide insights into rising standards of living and the performance of economies, but they may be misleading if only desirable outputs are considered. This study presents estimates of environmentally adjusted multifactor productivity (EAMFP) growth using a new comprehensive database. This database contains information on GHG and CAC emissions, as well as on the production activities of Canadian manufacturers.Release date: 2019-05-08
- Articles and reports: 16-508-X2019001Geography: Census metropolitan areaDescription:
This fact sheet compares population density for the Toronto and Vancouver census metropolitan areas (CMAs) in 1971 and 2016. It includes maps showing changes in the extent and density of populated areas on the periphery of these areas, as well as changes in population density within previously settled areas.
Release date: 2019-02-11 - Stats in brief: 16-508-X2018002Description: This factsheet looks at Canadian government expense relating to environmental protection between 2008 and 2016. The data is based on the Canadian Classification of Functions of Government (CCOFOG).Release date: 2018-06-05
- 115. Environment Fact Sheets: Government spending on environmental protection in Canada 2008 to 2016 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201815617422Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-06-05
- 116. An overview of Canada’s forest sector ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2018008Description: The infographic presents some of the highlights from the publication Human Activity and the Environment, 2017: Forests in Canada (Catalogue no. 16-201-X). It includes multiple components including maps, graphs, pictographs and facts about the forest sector and forest sector-based communities.Release date: 2018-05-08
- Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018011Description:
The infographic “Freshwater in Canada: A look at Canada’s freshwater resources from 1971 to 2013,” presents some highlights from the publication Human Activity and the Environment, 2017: Freshwater in Canada (Catalogue no. 16-201-X). It includes multiple components including a map, a graph, pictographs and facts about the depth of renewable freshwater resources and water use.
Release date: 2018-05-03 - 118. An overview of Canada’s forest resources ArchivedStats in brief: 11-627-M2018007Description: This infographic presents some of the highlights from the publication Human Activity and the Environment, 2017: Forests in Canada (Catalogue no. 16-201-X). It includes multiple components including a map, graphs, pictographs and facts about Canada’s forests and the disturbances that affect them.Release date: 2018-05-01
- Stats in brief: 16-508-X2018001Description: To comply with various environmental rules, businesses invest in processes and technologies that eliminate or reduce pollution before it is created (pollution prevention), or before it is released into the environment (pollution abatement and control). However, the various industries do not all spend at the same rate and do not all use the same techniques. This depends on current regulations and economic growth in the industry. This study draws a portrait of the environmental protection expenditures by the three of the main industries in Canada: oil and gas extraction; petroleum and coal product manufacturing; and electric power generation, transmission and distribution.Release date: 2018-04-13
- 120. Human Activity and the Environment: Forests in Canada ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X201807317603Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2018-03-14
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 7531Description: This is non-Statistics Canada information.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 8012Description: These data sets are developed for the purpose of longitudinal analysis of the Census of Agriculture for both Soil Landscapes of Canada and Drainage Area (Watershed) spatial frameworks.
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