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
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Results
All (717)
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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)
Data (402) (80 to 90 of 402 results)
- Table: 38-10-0158-01Geography: Population centre, Population centre partFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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.Release date: 2025-11-17
- Table: 38-10-0173-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: Types of vehicles, and types and number of charging stations owned by Canadian households. The data are from the Households and the Environment Survey.Release date: 2025-10-23
- Table: 38-10-0173-02Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: Percentage of Canadian households that own various types of vehicles. That data are from the Households and the Environment Survey.Release date: 2025-10-23
- Table: 38-10-0173-03Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: Type and number of vehicle charging stations owned by Canadian households. The data are from the Households and the Environment Survey.Release date: 2025-10-23
- Table: 38-10-0239-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Irrigation volume by month, province and drainage region. The unit of measure is cubic metres.Release date: 2025-10-03
- Table: 38-10-0240-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Irrigation volume by month and crop type. The unit of measure is cubic metres.Release date: 2025-10-03
- Table: 38-10-0241-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Total area that received irrigation by crop type, province and drainage region. The unit of measure is hectares.Release date: 2025-10-03
- Table: 38-10-0242-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of farms by irrigation status, province and drainage region.Release date: 2025-10-03
- Table: 38-10-0246-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of farms and percentage of irrigation water by water source, province and drainage region.Release date: 2025-10-03
- Table: 38-10-0249-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Number of farms by water and energy conservation practices, province and drainage region.Release date: 2025-10-03
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Analysis (261)
Analysis (261) (160 to 170 of 261 results)
- 161. Study: Measuring ecosystem goods and services ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X20133337122Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2013-11-29
- 162. Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-201-X201300011875Description:
The article "Measuring ecosystem goods and services in Canada" presents preliminary results achieved through a two-year interdepartmental project to develop experimental ecosystem accounts and the required statistical infrastructure. It provides an overview of ecosystem accounting and valuation and presents several measures of the quantity and quality of ecosystems and ecosystem goods and services (EGS). These measures focus on land cover, human landscape modification, ecosystem potential of the boreal forest, biomass extraction, marine and coastal EGS, and wetland EGS. The report also includes a case study on the Thousand Islands National Park exploring monetary valuation of EGS and concludes with a research agenda for future work on this topic.
Release date: 2013-11-29 - 163. Farm Environmental Management Survey 2011 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X20132824472Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2013-10-09
- 164. Study: Composting by households in Canada ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X20131915321Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2013-07-10
- 165. The Great U.S. Recession and Canadian Forest Products ArchivedArticles and reports: 11-626-X2013028Geography: CanadaDescription: This article in the Economic Insights series reports on changes in the production of Canada's forest industries. This article is published as part of a program at Statistics Canada that examines the role of natural resources in the Canadian economy.Release date: 2013-07-10
- Journals and periodicals: 11-526-XDescription:
Statistics Canada periodically conducts the Household and the Environment Survey to measure household actions that have, or are perceived to have, positive or negative impacts on the environment. The survey provides baseline information to use in measuring progress towards sound environmental practices at the household level. The subjects examined include consumption and conservation of energy, consumption and conservation of water, indoor environment, use of pesticides and fertilizers, outdoor air quality and consumer decisions.
Release date: 2013-03-18 - 167. Canada Year BookJournals and periodicals: 11-402-XGeography: CanadaDescription: Presented in almanac style, the 2012 Canada Year Book contains more than 500 pages of tables, charts and succinct analytical articles on every major area of Statistics Canada's expertise. The Canada Year Book is the premier reference on the social and economic life of Canada and its citizens.Release date: 2012-12-24
- 168. Human activity and the environment 2012 ArchivedStats in brief: 11-001-X20121575282Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2012-06-05
- 169. Waste management in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-201-X201200011679Description:
This analytical article 'Waste management in Canada' gathers together a variety of statistics describing the generation and management of different types of waste. The report starts with an overview of waste generation in Canada (Section 2). The remaining sections cover solid waste (Section 3), wastewater discharges (Section 4), and air emissions (Section 5) in greater detail.
Release date: 2012-06-05 - Articles and reports: 11-626-X2012006Geography: CanadaDescription: This article in the Economic Insights series is based on the research paper Natural Resources, the Terms of Trade, and Real Income Growth in Canada: 1870 to 2010. The research paper examines the importance of resource products in Canada's trade and real income growth.Release date: 2012-04-23
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Reference (52)
Reference (52) (10 to 20 of 52 results)
- Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024004Description: 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
- Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024001Description: 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
- Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2024002Description: 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
- Geographic files and documentation: 16-510-X2023001Description: 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
- Classification: 12-607-XDescription:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-509-XDescription: 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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-XDescription:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015001Description:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015002Description:
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 - Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2014001Description:
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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