Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Forest Climate Change

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTL08 (NR)

Core responsibility

Natural Resource Science and Risk Mitigation

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

This program delivers a significant response to climate change related to Canada’s forests. This program increases the resilience of Canada’s forests and forest sector to climate change by developing and disseminating adaptation tools, indicators, and regional integrated assessments of forest ecosystems’ vulnerability to climate change.

The program also delivers analyses and projections for how forest carbon accounting and mitigation actions by provinces, territories and stakeholders can make long-term contributions to meeting Canada’s greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and ensures that forest-related greenhouse gas reporting requirements are met.

In support of these objectives, the new 2 Billion Trees Program (2BT) will plant two billion incremental trees through cost-shared partnerships over the next 10 years to increase carbon sequestration (the removal of carbon from the atmosphere), as well as to provide other co-benefits to communities and ecosystems such as contributing to restoration of habitat for wildlife and biodiversity, health & community benefits from cleaner air and water, increased well-being and increased resilience to a changing climate (resilience to wildland fire, to flooding).

The Forest Climate Change program supports forest sector competitiveness, optimizes the value of the forest, and advances environmental leadership by helping the sector understand the risks posed by changing climate conditions and by contributing to national climate change mitigation efforts. The program will involve collaboration with provincial/territorial forest management agencies, Indigenous peoples, industry, other stakeholders and Environment and Climate Change Canada.

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.