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Canada is investing over $5 billion in nature-based climate solutions to help tackle the dual crises of climate change and biodiversity loss. The Natural Climate Solutions Fund is helping to plant two billion trees and restore and improve the management of wetlands, grasslands, forests and agricultural lands.
Environment and Climate Change Canada is working with provinces, territories, Indigenous peoples, and stakeholders to recover boreal caribou. Environment and Climate Change Canada is pursuing stewardship approaches and potential regulatory options under the Species at Risk Act.
Established as a standalone entity in October 2024, the Canada Water Agency works in collaboration with partners and stakeholders to keep Canada’s freshwater safe, clean, and secure. The Freshwater Action Plan (FWAP) is a signature federal program and a major funding initiative, primarily led by the Canada Water Agency, which manages, restores and protects fresh water in Canada.
The Government of Canada is delivering an evidence-based, comprehensive plan to tackle plastic waste and pollution and move towards a circular economy for plastics.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an emerging approach to help meteorologists generate and analyze weather prediction information. Environment and Climate Change Canada is exploring opportunities for machine learning to improve service delivery to Canadians.
The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) is seizing every opportunity to increase efficiency and accelerate the pace of federal impact assessments and permitting, while ensuring major projects are built responsibly.
The Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI) is questioning the Government’s failure to provide the committee with documents relating to the $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator Fund. ENVI members are likely to ask what the SIF NZA is, how it works and what ECCC’s role is.
Recent appearances before the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development on the Factors Leading to the Recent Fires in Jasper National Park.
Minister Guilbeault’s attendance at the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED)
Kearl Oil Sands Seepage