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  • 21. Change in selected climate variables since 1971, by drainage region
    Table: 38-10-0198-01
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Long-term changes in air temperature and precipitation over the period beginning in 1971, by drainage region. 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
  • 22. 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
  • 23. Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material, by product category
    Table: 38-10-0150-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: The Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material comprises 18 variables - expressed in tonnes - that describe the production and fate of plastic in products in the Canadian economy. This table displays product category detail for this account.
    Release date: 2026-03-26
  • 24. Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material, by province and territory
    Table: 38-10-0150-02
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: The Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material comprises 18 variables - expressed in tonnes - that describe the production and fate of plastic in products in the Canadian economy. This table displays product category detail by province and territory for this account.
    Release date: 2026-03-26
  • 25. Physical flow account for plastic material, by resin
    Table: 38-10-0151-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: The Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material comprises 18 variables - expressed in tonnes - that describe the production and fate of plastic in products in the Canadian economy. This table displays resin detail for this account.
    Release date: 2026-03-26
  • 26. Plastics in Canada: From production to recycling, 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026012
    Description: This infographic presents the movement of plastic materials in the Canadian economy in 2022, using data from the Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material. It describes the various stages of their life cycle, from production to recycling.
    Release date: 2026-03-26
  • 27. Revenues from environmental and clean technology goods and services exports, Canada and regions
    Table: 38-10-0031-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Total exports of environmental and clean technology goods and services. Includes exports to the United States, to the rest of world and by type of environmental and clean technology good and service.
    Release date: 2026-03-10
  • 28. Revenues from domestic sales of environmental and clean technology goods and services, by type of good and service, Canada and regions
    Table: 38-10-0087-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Total domestic environmental and clean technology goods and services sold in Canada. Includes clean energy equipment, non-hazardous waste management, industrial air pollution or flue gas management, etc.
    Release date: 2026-03-10
  • 29. Environmental and clean technology employment, Canada and regions
    Table: 38-10-0152-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Total environmental and clean technology employment in Canada.
    Release date: 2026-03-10
  • 30. Protected and conserved terrestrial extent account, by ecoprovince and ecozone
    Table: 38-10-0193-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Terrestrial area conserved, protected, or conserved under other effective methods by land cover, management category and protection type at the ecoprovince and ecozone levels.
    Release date: 2026-03-06
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Data (405) (360 to 370 of 405 results)

  • 361. Composting by households in Canada Archived
    Table: 16-002-X201300111848
    Geography: Canada
    Description:

    This study looks at composting by Canadian households using data from the 2011 Households and the Environment Survey.

    Release date: 2013-07-10
  • 362. Survey of Drinking Water Plants
    Table: 16-403-X
    Description:

    The Survey of Drinking Water Plants is conducted to provide Canadians with national and regional information related to the production of drinking water. The survey is a census of drinking water plants serving 300 or more people, and asks for information on volumes of water drawn and treated, treatment type, financial aspects of the operation, as well as raw (source) water quality.

    Release date: 2013-05-29
  • 363. Environmental Protection Expenditures in the Business Sector
    Table: 16F0006X
    Description: This document presents operating and capital expenditures made by primary and manufacturing industries in response to, or in anticipation of, environmental regulations and conventions. It also reports the use of environmental management processes and technologies including those used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by Canadian businesses. The results are from the Survey of Environmental Protection Expenditures. 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. The document presents comparisons of current year spending with previous years' expenditures.
    Release date: 2012-12-17
  • 364. Ecoregion profile: Annapolis-Minas Lowlands Archived
    Profile of a community or region: 16-002-X201200311717
    Description:

    The Annapolis-Minas Lowlands ecoregion profile is the ninth in a series of ecoregion profiles. The information presented includes a brief description of the physical setting, a snapshot of land cover and use as well as statistics on selected socio-economic characteristics of the region.

    Release date: 2012-09-26
  • 365. Departures of temperature and precipitation from normals
    Table: 38-10-0090-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Climatic region
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Departures of temperature and precipitation from 1961 to 1990 normal, by Canada and climatic regions.
    Release date: 2012-09-06
  • 366. Ecoregion profile: South-Central Nova Scotia Uplands Archived
    Profile of a community or region: 16-002-X201200211691
    Description:

    The South-Central Nova Scotia Uplands ecoregion profile is the eighth in a series of ecoregion profiles. The information presented includes a brief description of the physical setting, a snapshot of land cover and use as well as statistics on selected socio-economic characteristics of the region.

    Release date: 2012-06-27
  • 367. Selected glaciers' mass balance
    Table: 38-10-0089-01
    Geography: Glacier
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: These data are annual measures of mass for selected glaciers in Canada.
    Release date: 2012-02-28
  • 368. Land cover by category, Canada, major drainage areas and sub-drainage areas, inactive Archived
    Table: 38-10-0029-01
    Geography: Canada, Major drainage area, Sub-drainage area
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Land cover by category, Canada, major drainage areas and sub-drainage areas (square kilometres).
    Release date: 2011-10-28
  • 369. Mineral industries, including metals, non-metallic metals and fuels Archived
    Table: 38-10-0264-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains 208 series, with data for years 1961 - 2008 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2011-09-28. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (19 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Prince Edward Island; Newfoundland and Labrador ...) Components (11 items: Total establishments; Production workers' wages; Production workers' hours paid; Production workers ...).
    Release date: 2011-09-28
  • 370. Principal statistics of mineral industries, by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Archived
    Table: 38-10-0266-01
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: This table contains 352 series, with data for years 1994 - 2008 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years), and was last released on 2011-09-28. This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 items: Canada ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (32 items: Mining (except oil and gas); Coal mining; Coal mining; Metal ore mining ...) Components (11 items: Total establishments; Production workers' hours paid; Production workers' wages; Production workers ...).
    Release date: 2011-09-28
Analysis (262)

Analysis (262) (0 to 10 of 262 results)

  • 1. Study: Extreme weather impacts on consumers and insurers in Canada: An updated analysis December 2019 to December 2025
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202616741796
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-06-16
  • 2. Plastics in Canada: From production to recycling, 2022
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026012
    Description: This infographic presents the movement of plastic materials in the Canadian economy in 2022, using data from the Physical Flow Account for Plastic Material. It describes the various stages of their life cycle, from production to recycling.
    Release date: 2026-03-26
  • 3. Census of Environment: Sea ice extent 2024
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202603741271
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-02-06
  • 4. Ecosystem spotlight—oceans
    Articles and reports: 16-002-X202600100001
    Description: This article presents data on the extent and condition of Canada’s ocean and coastal ecosystems, as well as the ecosystem services—also known as “nature’s contributions to people”—they provide. Building on earlier pilot accounts, this article offers new physical and monetary estimates of ocean ecosystem services. It also marks the release of experimental monetary valuations of selected ocean ecosystem services, such as commercially harvested wild fish and seafood, nature-based tourism, and blue carbon sequestration.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 5. EnviroStats
    Journals and periodicals: 16-002-X
    Geography: Canada
    Description: The articles published in EnviroStats use statistics to illustrate topical environmental issues. The publication is intended for a general readership rather than an expert audience.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 6. How oceans benefit Canadians
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2026002
    Description: This infographic explores ocean and coastal ecosystems from a natural capital accounting perspective. It presents the extent of ocean and coastal areas, examines ocean condition through warming trends, and highlights ecosystem services such as fish and seafood harvests and the experimental monetary values of three selected ocean and coastal ecosystem services: commercial fishing, carbon sequestration, and nature-based tourism.
    Release date: 2026-01-21
  • 7. Canadian System of Environmental–Economic Accounts: Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions 2023
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202534512921
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2025-12-11
  • 8. Powering Progress: Toward a Better Understanding of Canada’s Green Economy
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2025009
    Description: Despite Canada’s ambitious climate goals and the global transition toward more sustainable economic development models, empirical evidence on how the green transition affects Canada’s productivity growth is limited because of a lack of comprehensive data. This study fills this gap in two steps. First, it constructs a first-of-its-kind measure of green intensity at the detailed industry level by synthesizing multidimensional data, including information on green outputs and processes. Second, it investigates productivity dynamics by decomposing productivity growth using this newly developed green index.
    Release date: 2025-12-08
  • 9. A Presentation Series from Statistics Canada About the Economy, Environment and Society
    Journals and periodicals: 11-631-X
    Description: Statistics Canada regularly prepares presentations with statistical findings about the country’s economy, society and environment. These presentations may be intended for conferences, meetings with stakeholders, or other events held throughout the year to provide Statistics Canada with an opportunity to promote the role of official statistics and to better understand data users’ needs. This series provides online access to these presentations as well as new presentations created to help communicate research findings on a wide range of subjects to a broad audience.
    Release date: 2025-10-27
  • 10. Environment Fact Sheets
    Journals and periodicals: 16-508-X
    Description: Environment fact sheets will include short, focused, single-theme analysis on key issues within the changing environment with regards to all Canadians. Over the course of the series, analysis will include topics on: air and climate, pollution and waste, environmental protection and quality, and natural resources.
    Release date: 2025-10-02
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Reference (52) (40 to 50 of 52 results)

  • 41. Air Quality Indicators
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5127
    Description: 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.
  • 42. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicator
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5129
    Description: 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.
  • 43. Biennial Drinking Water Plants Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5149
    Description: The Survey of Drinking Water Plants is conducted to provide Canadians with national and regional information related to the production of drinking water.
  • 44. Survey of Industrial Processes
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5163
    Description: 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.
  • 45. Hazardous Waste Management Industry Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5199
    Description: 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.
  • 46. National Fire Information Database (NFID)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5248
    Description: 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.
  • 47. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Ecosystem Accounts
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5331
    Description: 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.
  • 48. Canadian System of Environmental-Economic Accounts - Environmental tax statistics
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5376
    Description: 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.
  • 49. Canadian indexes of social resilience and vulnerability to natural hazards
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5431
    Description: 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.
  • 50. Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5450
    Description: 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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