Program directory · Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Environment and Climate Change Programs

Department

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada

Program code

BWO04 (AGR)

Core responsibility

Science and Innovation

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

Environment and Climate Change Programs includes programs designed to mitigate climate change through reducing greenhouse gas emissions and increasing carbon sequestration, and achieve environmental co-benefits (including air, soil, water, and biodiversity). The Agricultural Climate Solutions (ACS) Living Labs aims to incent and accelerate on-farm co-development, testing, monitoring, dissemination, and adoption of Beneficial Management Practices (BMP) that sequester carbon, mitigate climate change and provide environmental co-benefits and social benefits. ACS Living Labs is a program under the Natural Climate Solutions Fund (NCSF), a horizontal initiative led by Natural Resources Canada, with Environment and Climate Change Canada, and AAFC, which aims to develop projects that invest in natural climate solutions. The ACS On-Farm Climate Action Fund aims to accelerate the adoption of farm practices that will reduce GHG emissions, sequester carbon, and achieve other environmental co-benefits. The program focuses on supporting BMP adoption in three areas: improving nitrogen management; increasing adoption of cover cropping; and, normalizing rotational grazing. The Agricultural Clean Technology Program aims to create an enabling environment for the development and adoption of agricultural clean technology that will help drive the changes required to achieve a low-carbon economy and promote sustainable growth in Canada’s agriculture and agri-food sector.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.