
Chapter 16:
Environment & Sustainable Development
Canada’s draft 2019–2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy: Impacts on Clean Technology and Brownfield Development
January 4, 2019

The Government of Canada recently released the Draft 2019–2022 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy for public consultation and tabled the Government’s 2018 Progress Report of the 2016–2019 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy. The draft Strategy sets out the Government of Canada’s environmental sustainability priorities to stay within carrying capacity, establishes goals and targets, and identifies actions that 42 departments and agencies across government will take to reduce the negative externality of greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and advance sustainable development across Canada. For example, the Government is aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from federal government facilities and fleets by 40% by 2030 (with an aspiration to achieve this target by 2025) and 80% below 2005 levels by 2050, which is just like the type of goals set in a pollution credit system.

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