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 Stamp
2024-05-17T18:03:45.999Z
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy Level
Dataset
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators
 

Data identification

Date (Publication)
2024-05-02
Date (Creation)
2022-04-14
Status
Completed
Metadata language

eng; CAN
Character set
utf8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
  • Society
  • Transportation
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators

Keywords

Theme

  • 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

  • Environment

  • Sustainable development

  • Environmental indicators

  • Climate

  • Climate change

  • Greenhouse gases

  • Atmospheric emissions
 
Use Limitation

Open Government Licence - Canada ( http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada )

Access Constraints
License
Use Constraints
License
Begin Date
1990-01-01
End Date
2022-12-31

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Distribution Formats

Distribution format
  • CSV ( unknown )

 
Distributor
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada; Public Inquiries Centre
 
 

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Keywords

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
Atmospheric emissions Climate Climate change Environment Environmental indicators Greenhouse gases Sustainable development

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