Program directory · Natural Resources Canada

Cumulative Effects

Department

Natural Resources Canada

Program code

BTM07 (NR)

Core responsibility

Innovative and Sustainable Natural Resources Development

In Departmental Plans

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

What it does

This program focuses on the issue of increasing overlap in renewable and non-renewable natural resource development in Canada’s forested ecosystems. This is done by understanding the impacts and risks to forest ecosystems as well as to social and economic values resulting from multiple resource development activities, in addition to natural disturbances and climate change, thus distinguishing it from the sustainable forest management program. This program aims to improve the environmental performance of Canada’s resource sectors by creating and mobilizing the knowledge, tools and techniques needed to assess, prevent, minimize and mitigate cumulative effects. Addressing these cumulative effects will minimize unintended impacts to economic, environmental and social values and result in more efficient, transparent and consistent decision-making in natural resource development. Addressing cumulative effects in the context of natural resource development will consist of three inter-related components: 1) understanding and assessing the risk and scale of cumulative effects; 2) understanding the impact on, and trends of, ecosystem values; and 3) management actions to minimize the impacts on values. The program will work with industrial natural resource sectors, other government departments, provincial and territorial agencies, academia and non-governmental organizations.

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.