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Over the next three years, the 2020 to 2023 Departmental Strategy will demonstrate the linkages between the Department’s actions to advancing Federal Strategy goals and targets, and the environment-related Sustainable Development Goals to which they relate.

Global Affairs Canada's 2020 to 2023 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy demonstrates the department's contribution to the achievement of the goals and targets of the 2019 to 2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS). Specifically, it outlines Global Affairs Canada's contribution to 3 goals: Greening government, Effective action on climate change, and Clean growth. It also describes actions by the department to support sustainable development more broadly, including aligning efforts across the mandate to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda on Sustainable Development, Strategic Environmental Assessment practices, new methods to track and take account of carbon emissions internally, and encouraging responsible business conduct.

The 2019 to 2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) presents the Government of Canada’s sustainable development goals and targets, as required by the Federal Sustainable Development Act. In keeping with the purpose of this Act to provide the legal framework for developing and implementing a Federal Sustainable Development Strategy that will make environmental decision-making more transparent and accountable to Parliament, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) supports the goals laid out in the FSDS through the activities described in this Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (DSDS).

The Federal Strategy sets out the Government of Canada’s environmental sustainability goals, targets, and actions for the next three years.

The 2016–19 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) presents the Government of Canada’s sustainable development goals and targets, as required by the Federal Sustainable Development Act (the Act).

ISC’s 2021 Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy, in compliance with the federal sustainable development act, ensures that ISC is more transparent and held accountable in decisions regarding sustainable development.

National Research Council Canada (NRC) departmental sustainable development strategy for 2020 to 2023.

This report supports the Government of Canada's commitment included in the Federal Sustainable Development Act (FSDA) to make sustainable development decision-making more transparent and accountable to Parliament. It also contributes to an integrated, whole‑of‑government view of activities supporting environmental sustainability.

The modern concept of sustainable development is derived mostly from the 1987 Brundtland Report, which defines Sustainable Development as “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”. Sustainable Development is a key priority for the Government of Canada, which can only be achieved with robust engagement at all stages of policy and practice and at all levels of government – federal, provincial/territorial and municipal. The Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) identifies the Government of Canada’s sustainable development planning and reporting commitments. The FSDS fulfils the requirement of the Federal Sustainable Development Act (FSDA) to develop and table every three years a federal strategy that makes environmental decision making more transparent and accountable to Parliament.

This progress report supports the commitment in the Federal Sustainable Development Act (FSDA) to make environmental decision-making more transparent and accountable to Parliament. It also contributes to an integrated, whole-of-government view of activities supporting environmental sustainability.