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  • 1. Wastewater volumes processed by municipal sewage systems
    Table: 38-10-0099-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Wastewater (sewage) volumes by month, province, territory and drainage region.
    Release date: 2026-06-30
  • 2. Combined sewer overflow discharge volumes
    Table: 38-10-0100-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Discharge volumes from combined sewers by month, province, territory and drainage region.
    Release date: 2026-06-30
  • 3. Population served by municipal wastewater systems
    Table: 38-10-0119-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Population served by municipal wastewater systems, by province, territory and drainage region.
    Release date: 2026-06-30
  • 4. Wastewater volumes discharged from municipal sewage systems by treatment category
    Table: 38-10-0124-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Wastewater volumes discharged by treatment category, province and territory.
    Release date: 2026-06-30
  • 5. Population served by municipal wastewater systems by treatment category
    Table: 38-10-0125-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Population served by wastewater systems treatment category, province and territory.
    Release date: 2026-06-30
  • 6. Socioeconomic and dwelling characteristics of Canadian households using alternative energy sources
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600600002
    Description: The use of renewable energy sources by Canadian households reflects national priorities and international commitments to sustainability. Using data from the 2021 Households and the Environment Survey, this study examines the socioeconomic and dwelling-related characteristics of households that use renewable energy with respect to how adoption is distributed across the population and which groups are likely to adopt alternative energy, offering context for understanding Canada’s progress toward these goals.
    Release date: 2026-06-24
  • 7. Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account, output, gross domestic product, and compensation of employees per industry
    Table: 36-10-0645-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    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.
    Release date: 2026-05-29
  • 8. Employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristic
    Table: 36-10-0691-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    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.
    Release date: 2026-05-29
  • 9. Employment per industry in the environmental and clean technology products sector by demographic characteristic
    Table: 36-10-0692-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    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.
    Release date: 2026-05-29
  • 10. Employment in the environmental and clean technology products sector by gender and age, and by demographic characteristic
    Table: 36-10-0693-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    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.
    Release date: 2026-05-29
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  • 11. Demographic characteristics of employees in the environmental and clean technology products sector
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2025005
    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.
    Release date: 2026-05-29
  • 12. 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
  • 13. 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
  • 14. 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
  • 15. 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
  • 16. 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
  • 17. 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
  • 18. Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account, international imports and exports per trading partner
    Table: 36-10-0646-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Annual international imports and exports estimates of the environmental and clean technology products sector, per trading partner, for Canada, provinces and territories.
    Release date: 2026-02-17
  • 19. International trade in environmental and clean technology products, by trading partner
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023017
    Description: This interactive dashboard illustrates trade activity in Canada's environmental and clean technology products sector. With its interactive map and charts it allows the user to compare and analyze international trade of environmental and clean technology products per trading partner. Estimates are available per province and territory.

    This web-based application is updated annually, once the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2026-02-17
  • 20. Spending by Canadian businesses on environmental protection
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2023018
    Description: This interactive dashboard provides access to current and historical values spent by Canadian businesses to protect the environment. The interactive map and charts allow the user to compare and analyze capital expenditures and operating expenses made on different environmental protection and resources management activities. The information is available by Canadian region and by industry.

    This web-based application is updated annually as soon as the data for the latest reference period is released in The Daily.
    Release date: 2026-01-27
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  • 1. Socioeconomic and dwelling characteristics of Canadian households using alternative energy sources
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600600002
    Description: The use of renewable energy sources by Canadian households reflects national priorities and international commitments to sustainability. Using data from the 2021 Households and the Environment Survey, this study examines the socioeconomic and dwelling-related characteristics of households that use renewable energy with respect to how adoption is distributed across the population and which groups are likely to adopt alternative energy, offering context for understanding Canada’s progress toward these goals.
    Release date: 2026-06-24
  • 2. 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
  • 3. Women in the environmental and clean technology sector
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400700003
    Description: The Environmental and Clean Technology (ECT) sector in Canada plays a significant role in the nation's economy and efforts to combat climate change. Statistics Canada defines the ECT sector as encompassing activities related to environmental protection, resource optimization, and the use of energy-efficient goods. This study uses data from the Environmental and Clean Technology Products Economic Account to provide a comprehensive analysis of the sector's workforce diversity.
    Release date: 2024-07-24
  • 4. It's Not Easy Bein' Green Archived
    Stats in brief: 45-20-00032024004
    Description: We can try our best, but its not always easy knowing what's best for the environment. The world is complicated, and it isn't as simple as reduce, reuse, recycle—though that's a great place to start! In the immortal words of Kermit the Frog, "It's not easy bein' green."

    We have two stories exploring that theme. The first is one we made in-house asking just how green our digital world really is, and the second comes from the Simply Science podcast exploring the world of urban forests.
    Release date: 2024-06-06
  • 5. Analysis on Federal Business Innovation and Growth Support to Clean Technology, 2016 to 2020
    Articles and reports: 11-621-M2023011
    Description: This analysis provides a first-ever snapshot of the businesses performing clean technology activities that have been funded by the federal government through Business Innovation and Growth Support (BIGS) programs.
    Release date: 2023-07-20
  • 6. Climate change statistics Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202313636865
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2023-05-16
  • 7. Federal business innovation and growth support for clean technology, 2020 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2023034
    Description: Breakdown and comparison of beneficiaries and value of support of federal business innovation and growth support programs relating to clean technology, by region, industry and revenue growth, 2020.
    Release date: 2023-05-09
  • 8. Sustainable Development Goals: Goal 11, Sustainable Cities and Communities
    Articles and reports: 11-637-X202200100011
    Description:

    As the eleventh goal outlined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Canada and other UN member states have committed to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030. This 2022 infographic provides an overview of indicators underlying the eleventh Sustainable Development Goal in support of sustainable cities and communities, and the statistics and data sources used to monitor and report on this goal in Canada.

    Release date: 2022-12-13
  • 9. Gender characteristics of the environmental and clean technology products sector labour force, 2012 to 2019
    Articles and reports: 16-508-X2022002
    Description: This fact sheet, which provides an analysis of the Canadian environmental and clean technology products sector labour force characteristics, covers job shares, job growth, educational attainment and annual average wages and salaries by gender for the period 2012 to 2019.
    Release date: 2022-11-14
  • 10. Portrait of environmental and clean technology jobs in Canada, 2019 Archived
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2022029
    Description:

    This infographic presents the 2019 portrait of the Environmental and Clean Technology jobs in Canada. It displays data per workers characteristics (education, age, and gender), and per jobs characteristics (wage and occupation).

    Release date: 2022-04-28
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Reference (9) ((9 results))

  • 1. Clean technologies and the Survey of Environmental Goods and Services: A technical reference guide
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-511-X
    Description: This reference guide is intended for users of the Survey of Environmental Goods and Services (SEGS). The tables indicate which technologies and services were included in SEGS.
    Release date: 2025-06-03
  • 2. Households and the Environment Survey – Elementary level teacher’s kit Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015001
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative material, lesson plans, handouts and assignments to accompany the 2011 Households and the Environment report (catalogue no. 11-526-X). The materials and activities were developed for Statistics Canada by Enable Education.

    Resources were developed for an elementary school audience. Curriculum links include grades 1 to 3 mathematics, social studies, science and technology, as well as arts, language arts, and health and safety.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 3. Households and the Environment Survey – Secondary level teacher’s kit Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-507-X2015002
    Description:

    These educational resources provide instructors with innovative material, lesson plans, handouts and assignments to accompany the 2011 Households and the Environment report (catalogue no. 11-526-X). The materials and activities were developed for Statistics Canada by Enable Education.

    Resources were developed for a secondary school audience. Curriculum links include grades 9 to 12 science, business, environmental science, mathematics, with cross-curricular links to family studies, language arts, technology education and visual arts.

    Release date: 2015-09-17
  • 4. Behaviour Study on the Water Quality Index of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment Archived
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 16-001-M2007003
    Description:

    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.

    Release date: 2007-09-19
  • 5. 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.
  • 6. 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.
  • 7. 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.
  • 8. 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.
  • 9. 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.

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