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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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  • 391. A Geographic Profile of Manure Production in Canada Archived
    Thematic map: 16F0025X
    Description:

    This Statistics Canada publication is a collection of five annotated maps and graphs that describe the geographic distribution of manure in Canada by river basin. The amount of manure produced is estimated along with some of the major substances found in manure: (i) nitrogen, (ii) phosphorus, (iii) total coliform bacteria and (iv) fecal coliform bacteria.

    The maps and figures presented in this report indicate that there are geographic areas in Canada characterized by higher levels of total livestock manure and related production of nitrogen, phosphorus and bacteria. Areas that repeatedly showed the highest levels were found in central and southern Alberta, southern Manitoba, southern Ontario, southeastern Quebec, parts of Prince Edward Island, the west Fraser River area in southern British Columbia and an area near Wolfville and Kentville, Nova Scotia.

    Release date: 2001-02-22
  • 392. Logging Industry Archived
    Table: 25-201-X
    Description:

    The publication provides principal statistics of the logging industry including number of establishments, number of employees, salaries and wages, cost of fuel and electricity, cost of materials, value of shipments and value added. It also presents commodity detail by province on inputs and outputs and estimates of total forest production, by products and by province. A data analysis, definitions and notes, a bibliography and a list of establishments by province are also included.

    Release date: 2000-10-06
  • 393. International Trade in Environmental Goods and Services: A Canada - U.S. Comparison Archived
    Table: 16F0009X
    Description:

    Often identified as an emerging sector, the environment industry continues to evolve into a complex industry that offers a wide range of technologies and services aimed at protecting the environment and improving environmental quality. This paper analyses Canada's trade in environmental goods and services and compares it with the trade profile of the world's largest environmental market, the United States. What is Canada's trade balance among the different segments of the environment industry? What are the market drivers for environmental goods and services? The relevance of this research is magnified by the current focus on environmental technologies and their key sub-sectors such as climate change technologies, water and wastewater systems and hazardous waste management. The government recently identified these sectors as targeted growth areas for Canada.

    Release date: 2000-07-14
  • 394. Historical statistics of Canada, section L: Lands and forests Archived
    Table: 11-516-X198300111308
    Description: This section is concerned with those statistics referring to the allocation of lands and the production of forests. To some extent, these two questions are compatible only in that they have fallen under the same administrative unit for the purposes of management and data collection. They continue together in this volume as a matter of convenience. The data relating to land refer to the allocation of lands for settlement, production and recreation, and are, wherever possible, reported at both the national and provincial level. Those data relating to forests are concerned with primary products, the manufacturing of lumber, pulp and paper, and exports. Sources, together with problems or qualifications associated with them, are identified in each table by footnotes.
    Release date: 1999-07-29
  • 395. Historical statistics of Canada, section N: Fisheries Archived
    Table: 11-516-X198300111310
    Description:

    Statistics of Canadian production and trade in fish are presented in four parts: primary operations (series N1-48), processing (series N49-82), value of exports and imports (series N83-113), and miscellaneous statistics (series N114-142).

    Release date: 1999-07-29
  • 396. Survey on the Importance of Nature to Canadians - Documentation and Data Files Archived
    Public use microdata: 11M0001X
    Description:

    The major objective of this survey is to collect information on nature-related activities (such as viewing, studying, and photographing nature, camping, hiking, skiing, boating, hunting and fishing), and what these activities contributed to the Canadian economy. The survey was run previously in 1982, 1988 and 1992, and covered fish and wildlife-related activities in the preceding calendar year. This year's survey, covering the 1996 calendar year, is designed to update information from the previous surveys on fish and wildlife-related activities and to provide new information on other nature-related activities.

    Release date: 1999-06-29
  • 397. Bus versus the automobile - an element of Canada's program to fulfill the Kyoto Agreement Archived
    Table: 53-215-X19970004547
    Description:

    Over the past few decades, the fight against pollution of the environment has gone from the fringe to being fashionable to being controversial and, perhaps, even considered to be life threatening. A great debate now rages worldwide with regards to human-generated greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and their impact on the environment.

    Release date: 1999-05-03
  • 398. Environmental Protection Expenditures in the Business Sector, Preliminary Data Archived
    Table: 16F0006P
    Description: 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
  • 399. Waste Management Industry Survey: Government Sector, 1994 Archived
    Table: 16F0002X
    Description:

    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
  • 400. Waste Management Industry Survey: Business Sector, 1995 Archived
    Table: 16F0003X
    Description:

    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
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  • 111. Environmentally Adjusted Productivity Growth and the Market Price of Greenhouse Gas Emissions for the Canadian Manufacturing Sector Archived
    Articles and reports: 11-626-X2019008
    Description: 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 Archived
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019013
    Description: 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
  • 113. Long-term population density change in Toronto and Vancouver, 1971 to 2016 Archived
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2019001
    Geography: Census metropolitan area
    Description:

    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
  • 114. Government spending on environmental protection in Canada 2008-2016 Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-508-X2018002
    Description: 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 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201815617422
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2018-06-05
  • 116. An overview of Canada’s forest sector Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018008
    Description: 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
  • 117. Freshwater in Canada: A look at Canada’s freshwater resources from 1971 to 2013 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018011
    Description:

    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 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2018007
    Description: 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
  • 119. Trends in capital expenditures on environmental protection in Canadian industries Archived
    Stats in brief: 16-508-X2018001
    Description: 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 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X201807317603
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2018-03-14
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  • 31. Annual Environmental Protection Expenditures Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 1903
    Description: 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.
  • 32. Biennial Waste Management Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2009
    Description: This survey collects information that will help Canadians understand the contributions made by waste management industry to Canada's economy and environment.
  • 33. Fuel Consumption Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 2749
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to measure road use by light motor vehicles, their fuel consumption and their impact on the environment.
  • 34. Survey on the Importance of Nature to Canadians
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3808
    Description: The major objective of this survey was to collect information on nature-related activities, and what these activities contributed to the Canadian economy.
  • 35. Households and the Environment Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3881
    Description: 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.
  • 36. Farm Management Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5044
    Description: 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.
  • 37. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Report
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5081
    Description: 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.
  • 38. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Natural Resource Asset Accounts
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5114
    Description: 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.
  • 39. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Physical Flow Accounts
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5115
    Description: 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).
  • 40. Industrial Water Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5120
    Description: 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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