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
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) (30 to 40 of 402 results)
- Table: 38-10-0098-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023018Description: 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
- Table: 38-10-0130-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0131-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0132-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0133-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0134-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0135-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0136-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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
- Table: 38-10-0137-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: 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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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)
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5127Description: The air quality indicators reflect the potential for long term exposure of Canadians to ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter (PM2.5), key components of smog and two of the most common and harmful air pollutants to which people are exposed. Both the ozone and PM2.5 indicators are population weighted estimates of average concentrations of these pollutants observed by monitoring stations across Canada. Statistics Canada calculates the indicators based on monitoring data provided by Environment Canada's National Air Pollution Surveillance (NAPS) network.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5129Description: The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions indicator reports the trend in human made greenhouse gas emissions at a national, provincial/territorial, and sectoral level for six greenhouse gases in Canada: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons, and hydrofluorocarbons.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5149Description: The Survey of Drinking Water Plants is conducted to provide Canadians with national and regional information related to the production of drinking water.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5163Description: The Survey of Industrial Processes (SIP) is an industry-specific business survey focusing on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It is designed to link economic data with industrial processes and environmental outcomes. The SIP collects data on operational activities and engineering processes of industrial, manufacturing, and service oriented establishments.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5199Description: This survey collects data on the amount of hazardous waste handled by businesses in the Canadian Hazardous Waste Management industry. The data will be used to compile a national-level estimate of the amount of hazardous waste that is processed at Canadian facilities. The data will also be used by Environment Canada to fulfill international reporting requirements under the Basel Convention.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5248Description: The National Fire Information Database (NFID) is a pilot project with the objective of gathering ten years of microdata information on fire incidents and fire losses from provincial/territorial Fire Marshals and Fire Commissioners Offices across Canada, standardizing the data, and creating a centralized national system for the collection of fire statistics.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5331Description: Ecosystem accounts are based on the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA-EA) framework, which was adopted as an international statistical standard by the United Nations Statistical Commission in March 2021. This framework complements, and builds on, the accounting for environmental assets described in the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Central Framework (SEEA-CF), which was adopted as an international standard in 2012.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5376Description: The Environmental tax statistics (ETS) product is one of the elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting - Central Framework (SEEA-CF), which was adopted as an international standard in 2012. This product records, in monetary units, government revenues generated from environmental tax from industry, households, government institutions and non-profit organizations and gross fixed capital formation.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5431Description: The Canadian indexes of social resilience and vulnerability were created to provide area-based information on resilience and vulnerability to natural hazards and disasters across Canada.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5450Description: The Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account (ECTPEA) is one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) Central Framework, which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. This account provides statistics on the production and use of environmental and clean technology (ECT) products in the Canadian economy, expressed in monetary values.
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