Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environmental Pollution Management

Department: Environment and Climate Change Canada
Program code: BGS07 (EC)
Core responsibility: Preventing and Managing Pollution
In Departmental Plans: 2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan

What it does

The Environmental Pollution Management Program focuses on preventing, reducing, and managing pollution from various sources, including air and water pollution, risks from toxic substances, plastic pollution, and hazardous waste, to address threats to Canadians and their environment from pollution.

The Program integrates environmental science, monitoring, data, and research to support the development and implementation of regulatory and non-regulatory risk management measures for toxic substances, waste, plastic pollution, and air pollutants. It also delivers national pollutant reporting systems, provides environmental emergency response, assesses risks to the environment, and engages with partners to advance sustainable practices. To do so, the Program works in collaboration with provinces, territories, Indigenous partners, and stakeholders, both domestic and international.

The Program serves all people living in Canada and supports Canada’s goals for a clean, safe, and sustainable environment.

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

History and lineage

First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2026-27. 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).

Bars: spending by fiscal year (dark: actual; light: actual restated on the 2017-18 program structure; outlined: the latest plan's forecast; grey: related programs). Bands: each program in the lineage over the years it has data.

Program	Relation	Years with data	Actual spending over those years
Environmental Pollution Management	This program	2026-27 – 2028-29	—

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

Significant changes in scope and budget

Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.

No significant changes detected.

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.

Historical: targets against results

No results reported yet.

Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets

Number of visits to the Environmental Indicators page of the Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) section of Canada.ca

Expected result: Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) reach a broad audience

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 300,000	2027	—	Planned

Number of youth served who have received funding for an internship

Expected result: Youth have access to programs that allow them to acquire the skills, learning experiences and opportunities they need to find and maintain employment or return to school

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 97	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of actions taken in a timely manner to protect Canada's environment from chemicals found to be a risk to the environment

Expected result: The Canadian environment is protected from harmful substances

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	100% – 100%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of environmental effects and mitigation measures addressed in accordance with Environment and Climate Change Canada advice, which are recommended for inclusion in a Decision Statement

Expected result: Potential residual adverse environmental effects are addressed in the decision statement

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 90%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of environmental emergencies where Environment and Climate Change Canada provides requested scientific and technical advice within 4 hours of receiving the request

Expected result: Environment and Climate Change Canada’s technical and scientific advice supports federal responses to emergencies

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 90%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) and Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (DSDS) targets that are measurable and time-bound

Expected result: Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS) and Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (DSDS) targets are measurable and time-bound

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 70%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of monitored ocean disposal sites with no evidence of marine pollution from disposal activities

Expected result: Pollution from disposal or placement at sea is managed

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	100% – 100%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage of possible environmental effects and mitigation measures that are incorporated in the final Environmental Assessment / Impact Assessment report in accordance with Environment and Climate Change Canada advice

Expected result: Decision makers' final Impact Assessment documents appropriately characterize environmental issues

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 90%	2027	—	Planned

Percentage reduction in fine particulate matter (PM2.5) emissions from industrial, transportation and other sources

Expected result: Canadian air pollutant emissions are reduced

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	Continued positive trend (in percentage reduction)	2027	—	Planned

Percentage reduction in nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from industrial, transportation and other sources

Expected result: Canadian air pollutant emissions are reduced

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	Continued positive trend (in percentage reduction)	2027	—	Planned

Percentage reduction in sulphur oxides (SOx) emissions from industrial, transportation and other sources

Expected result: Canadian air pollutant emissions are reduced

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	Continued positive trend (in percentage reduction)	2027	—	Planned

Percentage reduction in volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emissions from industrial, transportation and other sources

Expected result: Canadian air pollutant emissions are reduced

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	Continued positive trend (in percentage reduction)	2027	—	Planned

Future goals: targets due after 2026-27

Cumulative percentage of Federal Contaminated Sites Action Plan-eligible sites (based on the Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory, as of March 31st, 2020) closed or in long-term monitoring

Expected result: Risks to human health and the environment from federal contaminated sites are reduced

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 80%	2030	—	Planned

Percentage of the population living in areas where air pollutant concentrations are less than or equal to the Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standards

Expected result: Canadians have clean air

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 85%	2033	—	Planned

Percentage reduction in black carbon emissions

Expected result: Canadian air pollutant emissions are reduced

Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.

Report year	Target	Due	Result	Status
2026-27	≥ 25%	2028	—	Planned

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

Show the numbers

Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2026-27	$306M	—
2027-28	$282M*	—
2028-29	$279M*	—

Employees (FTEs)

Outlined bar: planned in that year's Departmental Plan (dashed: the latest plan, for years not yet reported). Filled bar: actual.

Show the numbers

Fiscal year	Planned	Actual
2026-27	1,821	—
2027-28	1,710*	—
2028-29	1,685*	—

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

Plan	2026-27	2027-28	2028-29
2026-27 plan	$305,551,159	$282,419,646	$278,640,965
Actual

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