Program directory · Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Greening Government Operations

Department

Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Program code

BXB10 (TBC)

Core responsibility

Administrative Leadership

In Departmental Plans

2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

In November 2020, the Government announced the updated Greening Government Strategy. The Strategy includes the following elements: a target to reduce federal facility and conventional fleet GHG emissions by 40% by 2025 relative to 2005-06 levels; and all of the government’s operations will target net-zero emissions by 2050 including buildings, fleet, procurement of goods and services, and national safety and security operations. The government will procure 100% emissions-free clean electricity by 2022, where available, and by 2025 at the latest for its operations. The Strategy also includes commitments to divert waste, reduce water consumption, increase climate-resilience and retain and restore biodiversity in government operations.

The Centre for Greening Government leads the implementation of the Greening Government Strategy. The Centre exercises its leadership through the setting of targets for the Government of Canada, alignment of Government of Canada policies to the Greening Government Strategy, administer the Greening Government Fund, implementation support and technical guidance to departments to facilitate compliance with the Strategy, brokering of targeted initiatives, developing communication products and learning events, and tracking and publicly disclosing the government’s environmental performance.

The Centre for Greening Government leads the implementation of the Greening Government Strategy. The Centre exercises its leadership through the setting of targets for the Government of Canada, alignment of Government of Canada policies to the Greening Government Strategy, implementation support and technical guidance to departments to facilitate compliance with the Strategy, brokering of targeted initiatives, developing communication products and learning events, and tracking and publicly disclosing the government’s environmental performance.

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

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. 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.