Greenhouse gas emissions

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The indicators show trends in anthropogenic (human-made) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It includes emissions for 7 greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons, hydrofluorocarbons and nitrogen trifluoride). Greenhouse gases trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere, just as the glass of a greenhouse keeps warm air inside. Human activity increases the amount of GHGs in the atmosphere, contributing to a warming of the Earth's surface. The Greenhouse gas emissions indicators are used to track the progress of Canada's efforts to lower emissions and reach environmental performance objectives. They also support decision making on sustainable development. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.

Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

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Date ( RI_367 )
2026-04-15
Date ( RI_366 )
2022-04-14
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
Status
completed; complété RI_593
Maintenance and update frequency
asNeeded; auBesoin RI_540
Keywords ( RI_528 )
  • environmental indicators, air and climate, climate, climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide equivalent, National Inventory Report, NIR, GHG, CESI
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada ( RI_528 )
  • Environment
  • Environmental indicators
  • Climate
  • Sustainable development
  • Atmospheric emissions
  • Climate change
  • Greenhouse gases
Use limitation
Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
Access constraints
license; licence RI_606
Use constraints
license; licence RI_606
Spatial representation type
textTable; texteTable RI_637
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Society
  • Transportation
Begin date
1990-01-01
End date
2024-12-31
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  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Public Inquiries Centre
OnLine resource
Greenhouse gas emissions – English ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

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Greenhouse gas emissions – French ( HTTPS )

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Data sources and methods – English ( HTTPS )

Supporting Document;HTML;eng

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Data sources and methods – French ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions – English (1.29 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions – French (1.61 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions by economic sector – English (2.63 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions by economic sector – French (2.89 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector – English (2.37 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas sector – French (2.66 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector – English (2.45 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector – French (2.69 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector – English (1.31 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector – French (1.43 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector – English (1.53 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector – French (1.71 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions by province and territory – English (1.52 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Greenhouse gas emissions by province and territory – French (1.77 kB) ( HTTPS )

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Indexed trend in greenhouse gas emissions per person and per unit of GDP – English (2.54 kB) ( HTTPS )

Dataset;CSV;eng

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Indexed trend in greenhouse gas emissions per person and per unit of GDP – French (2.90 kB) ( HTTPS )

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File identifier
7d95e2f5-83de-4c3d-b642-f37f512edeb4 XML
Metadata language
eng; CAN
Character set
utf8; utf8 RI_458
Hierarchy level
dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
Date stamp
2026-04-20T21:05:28.114076Z
Metadata standard name
North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
Metadata standard version
CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009
RI_409
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
 
 

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