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Greening Government Strategy

Geography
🇨🇦 Canada
Year
2020
Document Type
Policy

Summary

This strategy aims at reducing GHG emissions and increase the resilience of Canada's federal government. It builds on the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy. It seeks to transition to net-zero carbon and climate-resilient operations, while also reducing environmental impacts beyond carbon, including on waste, water and biodiversity.The strategy notably sets goals with regard to low-carbon transport and real property.

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Centre for Greening Government operates a Low-carbon Fuel Procurement Program (LCFPP) within the Greening Government Fund. The LCFPP has $134.9 million in funding over eight years (fiscal years 2023–24 to 2030–31) to support the purchase of low-carbon-intensity liquid fuels for federal air and marine fleet operations and in 2024, the program was expanded to include the procurement of CDR services.

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About this policy

Year
2020
Most recent update
13/11/2020
Geography
🇨🇦 Canada
Response areas
Adaptation, Mitigation
Sectors
Buildings, Public Sector, Transport
Topics
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Topics
Target
Policy instrument
Risk
Impacted group
Just transition
Renewable energy
Greenhouse gas
Economic sector
Adaptation/resilience
Finance

Targets  11

Net-zero by 2050

Economy-wide, Target year: 2050

The Government of Canada’s operations will be net-zero emissions by 2050 including:   government-owned and leased real propertymobility: fleets, business travel and commutingprocurement of goods and servicesnational safety and security operations To implement net-zero in real property and fleet operations, the Government of Canada will reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 40% by 2025 and by at least 90% below 2005 levels by 2050. On this emissions reduction pathway, the government will aspire to reduce emissions by an additional 10% each 5 years starting in 2025. Net-zero means reducing GHG emissions from operations to as close to zero as possible and then balancing out any remaining emissions with an equivalent amount of carbon removal.

Public Sector, Target year: 2050

conserve and protect 25% of Canada’s land and oceans (working toward 30% by 2030)

Environment, Target year: 2030

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