Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Biodiversity Policy and Partnerships

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGT04 (EC)

Core responsibility

Conserving Nature

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

This Program aims to conserve biodiversity by: engaging with domestic and international governments, Indigenous organizations, non-government organizations, businesses, and Canadians to develop and meet Canada’s biodiversity commitments and obligations, to influence international policy related to biodiversity conservation; and participating in policy development to support modern treaty negotiations with Indigenous Peoples to ensure conservation needs and the reconciliation agenda are met. Contributions include representing Canadian priorities and interests in domestic and international negotiations and forums, and providing technical and scientific advice to a range of federal departments and international entities (including the Arctic Council, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)). To increase capacity to conserve biodiversity in Canada, the Program develops, reviews and shares Canadian positions and policy frameworks (including the Canadian Biodiversity Strategy and the Invasive Alien Species Strategy for Canada), provides targeted funding, issues CITES permits, conducts research, and maintains and shares data and information. To facilitate collaboration and broad engagement, the program supports federal-provincial-territorial fora, and internal and external committees related to conservation, wildlife and biodiversity.

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.