Environment
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8.6 million metric tonnes
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3.1 million metric tonnes
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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
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- Table: 36-10-0655-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Expansion of the Infrastructure Economic Accounts focusing on the environmental aspect to aid in understanding the relationship between investment in infrastructure and the environment. Main indicators include greenhouse gas emissions as a result of production of infrastructure assets, greenhouse gas emissions per value-added, and clean input proportion.Release date: 2026-06-12
- 2. Demographic characteristics of employees in the environmental and clean technology products sectorData Visualization: 71-607-X2025005Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical statistics on employment in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sectors by industry, occupation, and environmental and clean technology products. With its interactive charts, it allows the user to compare and analyze statistics on employment by different demographic characteristics including the education level, age, gender, immigrant status and Indigenous identity.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0645-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Annual output, gross domestic product, and compensation of employees estimates of the environmental and clean technology products sector, by industry, for Canada, provinces and territories.Release date: 2026-05-29
- 4. Employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristicTable: 36-10-0691-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by type of worker and by demographic characteristic. This includes full-time employment and part time employment, and it includes gender, age, level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status by environmental and clean technology products group. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0692-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristic. This includes gender, age, level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status by industry. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0693-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector, by gender, age, and demographic characteristic. This includes level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status by environmental and clean technology products group. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 36-10-0694-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: National data on employment per occupation (National Occupation Classification) in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristic. This includes level of education, immigration status, indigenous identity and visible minority status. Variables of interest include number of jobs, hours worked, wages and salaries as well as average hourly wage.Release date: 2026-05-29
- Table: 33-10-1156-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Businesses or organizations that are concerned about the impact of natural disasters and extreme weather events or of climate change on the future of its activities, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2026.Release date: 2026-05-27
- 9. Types of environmental insurance the business or organization is insured for, second quarter of 2026Table: 33-10-1157-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Types of environmental insurance the business or organization is insured for, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2026.Release date: 2026-05-27
- Table: 33-10-1158-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: OccasionalDescription: Businesses or organizations that made an insurance claim related to natural disasters or weather-related events over the last 12 months, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), business employment size, type of business, business activity and majority ownership, second quarter of 2026.Release date: 2026-05-27
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- Table: 16F0006PDescription: Environmental protection expenditures in the business sector, preliminary data presents operating and capital expenditures made by primary and manufacturing industries in response to, or in anticipation of, environmental regulations and conventions. The results are from the Environmental Protection Expenditure Survey. The data contained in Environmental protection expenditures in the business sector help to fill important gaps in existing information on the demand side of the 'environment industry.' More specifically, it provides a measure of the cost to the industry of adopting pollution prevention and abatement technologies and other environmental protection practices. Data included in Environmental protection expenditures in the business sector are components of a national statistical database on the environment industry.Release date: 1999-02-19
- Table: 16F0002XDescription:
This report presents results and analysis of the Waste Management Industry Survey: Government Sector. The survey gathers information on waste collection, disposal and recycling practices of Canadian municipalities. The document provides an overview of waste management activities in large municipalities (5 000 or more residents). More than three quarters of the Canadian population are represented in this survey, allowing for estimates of municipal solid waste at the national level and for selected regional groupings. The report also presents information on waste management expenditures by local governments, including expenditures for services provided by contractors and by government employees.
Release date: 1998-07-23 - 403. Waste Management Industry Survey: Business Sector, 1995 ArchivedTable: 16F0003XDescription:
This report presents results of the Waste Management Industry Survey, 1995, which gathered information on the financial characteristics and waste management activities undertaken in the business sector.
Release date: 1998-07-23 - 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 - 405. 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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- 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: 11F0027M2012079Geography: CanadaDescription: This paper studies the growth of the Canadian resource economy and the contribution of trading gains arising from increasing terms of trade to real income growth from 1870 to 2010. It combines a historical account of the growth of a succession of natural resources--examining both the production and price history of agriculture, forestry, mining, and oil and gas--with an overview of the impact of these developments on Canadian well-being. It uses estimates of the difference between real income and real output growth, based on measurement theory from the System of National Accounts, to measure trading gains that arose from increasing terms of trade over the period.Release date: 2012-04-23
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1903Description: The Environmental Protection Expenditures Survey provides a measure of the costs incurred by Canadian industries to protect the environment, whether or not they are in response to current or anticipated Canadian or international environmental regulations, conventions or voluntary agreements. The survey also collects information on the goods, technologies and services purchased by industries as well as the processes and practices adopted by them to protect the environment. Data from the survey are used predominantly by policy analysts and by both industry and academic researchers. Data may be used to monitor expenditure trends within industry groups or provinces for the purpose of developing business or research and development strategies, as well as to evaluate the effectiveness of policy.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2009Description: This survey collects information that will help Canadians understand the contributions made by waste management industry to Canada's economy and environment.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2749Description: The purpose of this survey is to measure road use by light motor vehicles, their fuel consumption and their impact on the environment.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3808Description: The major objective of this survey was to collect information on nature-related activities, and what these activities contributed to the Canadian economy.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3881Description: The Households and the Environment Survey (HES) measures the environmental practices and behaviours of Canadian households that relate to the condition of our air, water and soils. The survey was also designed to collect data to develop and improve three key environmental indicators: air quality, water quality and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5044Description: This survey, focusing on both livestock and crop operations, will allow the establishment of base lines and development of updates for an expanded set of agri-environmental indicators, and generate the information to design effective and well targeted policy and program responses.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5081Description: The survey collects, analyses and publishes information on industrial greenhouse gas emissions to support Canada's national and international reporting obligations and the public interest as it relates to climate change and the environment.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5114Description: Natural resource asset accounts are one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. Natural resource asset accounts measure quantities of natural resource assets (oil, natural gas, minerals, and timber) and the annual changes in these assets due to natural processes and human activity. These accounts, which are recorded using both physical and monetary units, form the basis of the estimates of Canada's natural resource wealth that are integrated into the Canadian national balance sheet accounts.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5115Description: Physical flow accounts are one of the main elements of the United Nations System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) which was adopted as an international statistical standard in 2012. These accounts record, in physical units of measure, the supply and use of natural inputs (e.g. cubic metres of water), products (e.g. terajoules of gasoline), and residuals (e.g. kilotonnes of carbon dioxide emissions).
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5120Description: This survey is being conducted to provide Canadians with national and regional indicators related to the use of water in industry.
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