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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- Stats in brief: 11-001-X202616741796Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletinRelease date: 2026-06-16
- 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
- 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
- 8. 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: 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
- 10. 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
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- Table: 36-10-0681-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Annual estimates of the environmental and clean technology products sector employment and average earnings, by product category, for Canada, provinces and territories.Release date: 2025-12-19
- Table: 38-10-0139-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: Direct energy use (terajoules) and direct greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents) (kilotonnes) associated with the environmental and clean technology products sector, by goods and services category.Release date: 2025-12-19
- Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023015Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical gross domestic product (GDP) and international trade values in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector. With its interactive map and charts, it allows the user to compare and analyze this sector's GDP, imports and exports by province and territory and by product. This web-based application is updated annually, once the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.Release date: 2025-12-19
- 64. Jobs and compensation of employees in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sectorData Visualization: 71-607-X2023016Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical data on jobs and compensation of employees in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector. With its interactive map and charts it allows the user to compare and analyze provincial and territorial job and average annual compensation estimates, by product and by industry. This web-based application is updated annually, once the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.Release date: 2025-12-19
- 65. Logging industries, principal statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)Table: 16-10-0114-01Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (16 items: Canada; Atlantic Region; Newfoundland and Labrador; Prince Edward Island; ...) Principal statistics (16 items: Total revenue; Revenue from logging activities; Total expenses; Total salaries and wages, direct and indirect labour; ...) North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) (3 items: Logging; Logging (except contract); Contract Logging).Release date: 2025-12-18
- Table: 38-10-0096-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: AnnualDescription: Energy use by industries and households. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.Release date: 2025-12-11
- Table: 38-10-0097-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: Greenhouse gas emissions (carbon dioxide equivalents), by industries and households. Industry aggregation is at the L-level of the input-output accounts of Statistics Canada.Release date: 2025-12-11
- Table: 36-10-0678-01Geography: Canada, Province or territoryFrequency: AnnualDescription: This account records, in monetary units, government revenues generated from environmental tax from industry, government, non-profits, gross fixed capital formation and households. Estimates are available by province and territory.Release date: 2025-12-09
- Table: 38-10-0028-01Geography: CanadaFrequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: Percentage of households that had trees, bushes or hedges on their property, and whether trees were planted or cut down in the last five years, by type of dwelling. The data is from the Households and the environment survey.Release date: 2025-12-09
- Table: 38-10-0048-01Geography: Canada, Province or territory, Census metropolitan area, Census metropolitan area partFrequency: Every 2 yearsDescription: This table shows the proportion of Canadian households that reported the use of various types of energy-saving lights. The unit of measure is percent. The table is biennial.Release date: 2025-12-09
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- 211. Controlling the Temperature in Canadian Homes ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-001-M2008006Description:
Rising energy costs and environmental concerns are clear incentives for households to adopt energy conservation measures. Turning down the thermostat temperature setting at night and using programmable thermostats are two ways a household's energy consumption may be reduced. Using results from the 2006 Households and the Environment Survey, the author explores some of the demographic factors associated with these behaviours.
Release date: 2008-09-25 - 212. Against the flow: Which households drink bottled water? ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-002-X200800210620Geography: CanadaDescription: Using data from the Households and the Environment Survey, the study examines the characteristics of households drinking bottled water in the home.Release date: 2008-06-25
- Articles and reports: 16-002-X200800210623Geography: CanadaDescription: This study compares businesses' greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction activities and expenditures by establishment size using data from the Survey of Environmental Protection Expenditures.Release date: 2008-06-25
- 214. The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: On population-weighted ground-level ozone ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-002-X200800210624Geography: CanadaDescription:
This study extends the trend analysis and builds upon the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) ground-level ozone indicator. It presents two additional population-weighted ground-level ozone concentration trends from 1990 to 2005.
Release date: 2008-06-25 - 215. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: Air Quality Indicators: Data Sources and MethodsJournals and periodicals: 16-254-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
This report presents details on the data sources and methods underlying the air quality indicators as they were reported in Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007 (16-251-XWE). The air quality indicators focus on human exposure to ground-level ozone and fine particulate matter.
Details on the indicators reported after 2007 can be found on Environment Canada's site: &&www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/
Release date: 2008-06-20 - Journals and periodicals: 16-255-XGeography: CanadaDescription: This report presents details on the data sources and methods underlying the greenhouse gas emissions indicator as it was reported in Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007 (16-251-X). The greenhouse gas indicator describes the trend in emissions and the contribution to the trend by energy production, energy consumption and other factors.Release date: 2008-06-20
- 217. Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: Freshwater Quality Indicator: Data Sources and Methods ArchivedJournals and periodicals: 16-256-XGeography: CanadaDescription:
This report presents details on the data sources and methods underlying the freshwater quality indicator as it was reported in the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators, 2007 (16-251-XWE). The national freshwater quality indicator provides an overall measure of the suitability of water bodies to support aquatic life in selected monitoring sites in Canada.
Details on this indicator reported after 2007 can be found on Environment Canada's site: www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/
Release date: 2008-06-20 - 218. Climate change in Canada ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-201-X200700010542Geography: CanadaDescription: The article "Climate Change in Canada" begins with an explanation of the science necessary to explore this topic. It continues to examine greenhouse gas emissions in Canada, investigating the driving forces behind those emissions and how those forces may have changed over time. It illustrates some of the impacts of climate change on our land, wildlife and peoples. The article concludes with a presentation of the activities that Canadians, industry and governments are undertaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to adapt to the changing climate, and also profiles some promising areas for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the future.Release date: 2008-04-22
- 219. Disposal of household special wastes ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-002-X200800110539Geography: CanadaDescription: Households across the country regularly produce special wastes ranging from dead batteries to old paint containers. This study focuses on four special wastes for which information was collected in the 2006 Households and the Environment Survey' leftover or expired medication, dead batteries, old computer and communication equipment and leftover paint.Release date: 2008-03-27
- 220. Is composting organic waste spreading? ArchivedArticles and reports: 16-002-X200800110540Geography: CanadaDescription: Diverting organic waste is one way of reducing the amount of waste being sent to landfills. Materials such as food waste and leaf and yard trimmings are often composted at home using compost bins or they are collected curbside and processed at centralized composting facilities. The study examines composting in Canada using data from the Waste Management Industry Survey and the Households and the Environment Survey.Release date: 2008-03-27
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- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 7531Description: This is non-Statistics Canada information.
- Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 8012Description: These data sets are developed for the purpose of longitudinal analysis of the Census of Agriculture for both Soil Landscapes of Canada and Drainage Area (Watershed) spatial frameworks.
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