Greenhouse Gas Emissions Indicators - Greenhouse gas emissions per person (GHG per capita) and per unit of GDP (GHG intensity), Canada, 1990 to 2010

Dataset Summary

Creator

Environment Canada

Subject Area

Nature and Environment

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Language

Bilingual (English and French) 

Date Published

2012-04-11 

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Description

Description

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Greenhouse Gas Emissions indicators report trends in anthropogenic (human-made) greenhouse gas emissions at the national level (total emissions, emissions per person and emissions per unit of gross domestic product), and at the provincial/territorial and economic sector level for the six main GHGs in Canada: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, sulphur hexafluoride, perfluorocarbons and hydrofluorocarbons. The indicators are used to track the progress of Canada's efforts to lower emissions and reach environmental performance objectives. Use of the GHG indicators in conjunction with economic performance indicators such as the gross domestic product (GDP) will help to support national-level 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 supplementary documentation for data sources and details on how those data were collected and how the indicator was calculated. 

Keywords

environmental indicators, air and climate, greenhouse gas emissions, climate, greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, carbon dioxide equivalent, National Inventory Report, NIR, GHG per capita, per person, per unit gross domestic product, GHG intensity  

Program URL

http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=En&n=A073189E-1 

Data Series URL

http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=BFB1B398-1#ghg2  

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Reference for Supplementary Documentation

http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=79BA5699-1#ghg2
http://www.ec.gc.ca/indicateurs-indicators/default.asp?lang=en&n=391052E4-1  

Coverage

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Canada 

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File Information

Dataset Group Name

Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) 

Number of Datasets

2 

Files

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