Environment

Description: This table displays the disposal of waste by source (residential and non-residential) for Canada, provinces and territories every two years. The unit of measure is tonnes.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

Description: 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.

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Marine accident key variables for top-most dangerous goods, means of containment and instigating events. Annual data is available from 1987.

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Annual number of dangerous goods accidents starting in 1987 for Road, Rail, Marine and Air modes of transportation and at Facilities.

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Annual number of dangerous goods accidents starting in 1987 reported by province and territory for Road, Rail, Marine and Air modes of transportation and at Facilities.

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Accident severity assessment indicators provided by the number of fatalities, injured persons and severity levels reported during the transportation and handling of dangerous goods by Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities. Annual data is available from 1987.

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Number of accidents recorded at facilities during storing, loading, unloading, packing or unpacking dangerous goods in a means of containment for the purposes of, in the course of or following transportation. Annual data is available from 1987.

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Statistics on commodities involved in accidents during the transportation and handling of dangerous goods by Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities reported by selected key variables. Annual data is available from 1987.

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Marine accident key variables for top-most dangerous goods, means of containment and instigating events. Annual data is available from 1987.

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Total accidents involving petroleum where a release occurred for Road, Rail, Marine and Air transportation modes and at Facilities, by commodity and characteristics of releases. Annual data is available from 1999.

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Accident key variables for top-most dangerous goods, means of containment and instigating events. Annual data is available from 2002.

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Road accident key variables for top-most dangerous goods, means of containment and instigating events. Annual data is available from 2002.

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Using data from the Households and the Environment Survey, this article looks at the options Canadian households choose when their cell phones and computers become damaged or are no longer needed.

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This infographic visually presents information on household disposal methods of textile and e-waste for the years 2017 and 2019. It also presents total household textile and e-waste diverted from landfills or incinerators and total household waste sent to landfills and incinerators for the year 2018. This infographic is based on data from the 2017 and 2019 cycles of the Households and Environment Survey and the 2018 Waste Management Industry Survey.

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Human Activity and the Environment (16-201-X) focuses on current environmental issues. The latest information and statistics are gathered from many sources to produce an in-depth analytical article.

Description: Using data from the publication Human Activity and the Environment (HAE), 2021, this infographic provides selected highlights from the report, covering ecosystem extent, condition and services.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

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This article reports experimental estimates for the impact of flooding in B.C. on local economies. The paper uses a firm level dataset to geographically determine firm locations that are likely to have been affected by flooding due to heavy rains during November 13th to November 15th 2021.

Description: The data on natural wealth presented reflects the proven & probable reserves for select minerals and established active reserves for energy (2020 preliminary).

Description: Urban greenness reflects the presence and health of vegetation in urban areas and is a measure of urban ecosystem condition. This study uses data from satellite imagery to track greenness across population centres for three reference years over an 18-year period.

Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin

Description: This article provides estimates of the economic contribution of marine sectors in Canada in 2014 to 2018 and describes some of the environmental challenges faced by these sectors.

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Environment Accounts and Statistics Division is Statistics Canada's focal point for the collection, analysis and dissemination of environmental information. This reference guide briefly describes the division's programs, as well as all publications and electronic products offered on a quarterly, annual, biennial and occasional basis.

Description: Quantifying how Canada's water yield has changed over time is an important component of the water accounts maintained by Statistics Canada. This study evaluates the movement in the series of annual water yield estimates for Southern Canada from 1971 to 2004. We estimated the movement in the series using a trend-cycle approach and found that water yield for southern Canada has generally decreased over the period of observation.

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In 2008, Statistics Canada conducted the first Agricultural Water Use Survey. This pilot survey is part of the Canadian Environment Sustainability Indicators initiative and collects information on volumes of water used for irrigation, irrigated areas, irrigation practices and the quality of water used for agricultural purposes. This technical paper describes the methodology used for the pilot survey and includes recommendations for future cycles of the survey. The validation process seems to indicate that the method used to estimate the volumes of water used and the irrigated areas calculated underestimates the results. The report gives recommendations to minimize this bias in the next iterations of the survey. First, it is recommended to simplify the level of information collected by the survey; to review the sampling methodology; and to examine other means of collecting information on volumes of water used for irrigation. This pilot version of the survey remains a reliable source for consistent data on agricultural water use.

Description: In this paper, we present the methodology developed by Statistics Canada to calculate the average annual water yield for Canada. Water yield, for the purposes of this paper, is defined as the amount of freshwater derived from unregulated flow (m³ s^-1) measurements for a given geographic area over a defined period of time. The methodology is applied to the 1971 to 2000 time period.

This research was conducted to fill data gaps in Statistics Canada's water statistics program. These gaps exist because estimates of freshwater flow for Canada have not been calculated regularly and have been produced using a variety of methods that do not necessarily generate comparable results. The methodology developed in this study produced results that are coherent through space and time. These results will be used in the future to investigate changes in water yield on a more disaggregated basis.

To achieve the water yield estimate a database of natural streamflow observations from 1971 to 2000 was compiled. The streamflow values were then converted to a runoff depth and interpolated using ordinary kriging to produce spatial estimates of runoff. The spatial estimates were then scaled to create a National estimate of water yield as a thirty-year average. The methodology and results were then validated using a stability analysis and several techniques involving uncertainty. The result of the methodology indicates that the thirty-year average water yield for Canada is 3435 km³.

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Statistics Canada administers a number of environmental surveys that fill important data gaps but also pose numerous challenges to administer. This paper focuses on two on-going environment surveys - one newly initiated and one in the process of a redesign.

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The objective of the present study is to understand and explain how the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) Water Quality Index (WQI) behaves, and at the same time determine its limitations to make a better use of it in the future. In order to do so, four data sets were made available to us thanks to participation of the following provinces: Newfoundland, Ontario, British Columbia and Quebec.

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Part of Statistics Canada's Econnections: linking the environment and the economy statistical series, this publication describes in detail the conceptual frameworks, data sources and empirical methods used to compile the Canadian System of Environmental and Resource Accounts (CSERA). Designed to be compatible with the accounting frameworks of the System of National Accounts, the CSERA allows users to easily analyze the linkages between economic activity and the environment in terms of material and energy flows, environmental expenditures and natural resource stocks. This publication will be of interest to researchers in both the economic and environmental fields who want to familiarize themselves with the accounting concepts of the CSERA. It is a companion volume to Environment-economy indicators and detailed statistics (catalogue no. 16-200-XKE), another product in the Econnections series.

Statistics Canada has updated its 1997 documentation on environmental accounts, Econnections: Concepts, Sources and Methods of the Canadian System of Environmental and Resource Accounts, with publication of the Methodological Guide: Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounting.

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This activity focuses on how water is used for irrigation, the benefits and risks associated with irrigation and the ways farmers manage their water use.

Description: The purpose of the survey is to produce estimates of the production of environmental goods and services by industry. This survey collects data on sales of environmental and clean technology goods and services.

Description: The survey provides information on waste management financial and employment characteristics. It also collects information on collection, disposal and recycling quantities reported by municipalities and other public bodies that provide waste management services.