Restoring the Great Lakes Areas of Concern – Progress on Canadian Great Lakes Areas of Concern

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. This indicator assesses progress towards the restoration of Canada's 12 Areas of Concern and the 5 Areas of Concern shared with the United States. An Area of Concern is a region in the Great Lakes that has experienced a high level of environmental damage from human activity. This indicator is used to provide information about the state of the Great Lakes and the Canadian environment. It tracks the work done to repair the environment at 17 Areas of Concern in Canada. In these areas, the degraded environment has disrupted fisheries, tourism and/or agriculture. This indicator supports the measurement of progress towards the following 2019 to 2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy long-term goal: Clean and healthy lakes and rivers support economic prosperity and the well-being of Canadians. 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.

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eng; CAN
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  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 

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Date (Publication)
2019-08-29
Date (Creation)
2016-02-16
Status
On going
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eng; CAN
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UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Society
Maintenance and Update Frequency
As needed
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Text, table
Custodian
  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Nathalie Trudeau ( Director, Information and Indicators Division )
Canada

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  • environmental indicators, water, water quality, Great Lakes, regional ecosystems, restoration program, Areas of Concern, beneficial uses, Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement

  • Observation/Measurement

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  • Water

  • Water - Quality

Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus

  • Environmental indicators

Business Functions

  • Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste

  • Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota

Geography

  • Ontario (ON)

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  • Strategic Policy Branch

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  • Sustainability Directorate

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  • 1.3.1. Sustainability Reporting and Indicators

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

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1987-01-01
End Date
2019-03-31

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  Government of Canada; Environment and Climate Change Canada - Environment and Climate Change Canada ( Public inquiries centre )
Fontaine Building 12th floor, 200 Sacré-Coeur Blvd , Gatineau , Quebec , K1A 0H3 ,
1-800-668-6767
http://ec.gc.ca
 
 

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Keywords

Observation/Measurement environmental indicators, water, water quality, Great Lakes, regional ecosystems, restoration program, Areas of Concern, beneficial uses, Canada-United States Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Business Functions
Assess Toxicity, Manage and Monitor for Environmental Presence of Hazardous Substances and Waste Monitor / Assess Substance and Waste Levels in Air, Water, Soil, Biota
ECCC Information Category EN
Water Water - Quality
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus
Environmental indicators
external.theme.EC_Branch
Strategic Policy Branch
external.theme.EC_Directorate
Sustainability Directorate
external.theme.EC_Program_PAA
1.3.1. Sustainability Reporting and Indicators
external.theme.GC_Security_Level
Unclassified

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