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Environment and Climate Change Canada

What Environment and Climate Change Canada spent in fiscal year 2019-20: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.

What Environment and Climate Change Canada does

Environment and Climate Change Canada is responsible for federal environmental protection, climate change policy, weather and meteorological services, and the conservation of wildlife and biodiversity. Its portfolio includes Parks Canada, which manages the national parks, national marine conservation areas, and national historic sites system, and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada, which oversees federal environmental assessments of major projects.

Spending, 2019-20

Net spending, 2019-20

$1.55B

spent by Environment and Climate Change Canada, less revenues it kept

Share, 2019-20

0.5%

of the net spending of every federal organization

How did Environment and Climate Change Canada spend its budget in 2019-20?

By standard object. Revenues it kept are negative and netted against its spending. Transfer payments are broken into their largest named programs.

Spending by standard object, 2019-20

Personnel

Transfer payments

Professional and special services

Transportation and communications

Utilities, materials and supplies

Acquisition of machinery and equipment

Rentals

Repair and maintenance

Information

Other subsidies and payments

Acquisition of land, buildings and works

Public debt charges

Internal revenues

External revenues

$778M

$482M

$196M

$39.7M

$36M

$32.7M

$28.1M

$16.1M

$7.1M

$6.9M

$1.6M

$461K

-$24.2M

-$53.5M

Total: $1.55B.

Workforce, 2019-20

Full-time equivalents

7,413

the actual FTEs of its programs, as GC InfoBase reports them

Personnel spending

$778M

salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)

Personnel spending per FTE

$105K

personnel spending divided by full-time equivalents

A full-time equivalent is a measure of employment, not a headcount: two half-time employees are one FTE. Personnel spending includes benefits and pension contributions, so per FTE it is not an average salary.

Transfer payment programs, 2019-20

The grants, contributions and other transfers Environment and Climate Change Canada paid, program by program: $482M in all, against $482M for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).

Contributions in support of the Low Carbon Economy FundPaymentsContribution$278,850,099
Contributions in support of the Canada Nature FundPaymentsContribution$98,368,113
Contributions in support of Conserving NaturePaymentsContribution$27,450,598
Contributions in support of Taking Action on Clean Growth and Climate ChangePaymentsContribution$24,541,789
Contributions in support of Preventing and Managing PollutionPaymentsContribution$21,530,418
Contributions in support of the Science Horizons Youth Internship programs under the Career Focus stream under the federal Youth Employment StrategyPaymentsContribution$14,129,000
Grants for the implementation of the Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layerPaymentsGrant$2,769,660
Assessed contribution to the World Meteorological OrganizationPaymentsContribution$2,417,056
Assessed contribution to the Commission for Environmental CooperationPaymentsContribution$2,320,756
Contributions in support of Predicting Weather and Environmental ConditionsPaymentsContribution$2,248,204
Contributions in support of the Impact Assessment and Regulatory SystemPaymentsContribution$2,224,767
Grants in support of Taking Action on Clean Growth and Climate ChangePaymentsGrant$2,186,921
Grant under the Innovative Solutions Canada programPaymentsGrant$1,462,300
Assessed contribution to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and FloraPaymentsContribution$457,749
Assessed contribution to the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance (Ramsar Convention)PaymentsContribution$404,000
19 programs$481,634,380
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Contracts of $10,000 and under

Contracts this small are not published one by one: Treasury Board publishes each organization's totals, by calendar year, for contracts of $10,000 and under (their original value and their amendments) and for acquisition card purchases. They are the value of contracts entered into, not what was paid in a fiscal year, so they are not part of the net expenditure above, and the years are calendar years.

Calendar yearGoodsServicesConstructionAcquisition cardsTotal
2024$1,230,264$3,441,745$278,679$47,858,236$52,808,924
2023$1,137,598$3,319,801$364,551$45,381,757$50,203,706
2022$1,451,127$3,258,637$264,929$66,885,246$71,859,938
2021$19,667,146$19,667,146$2,518,578$34,297,421$76,150,292
2020$1,486,935$3,890,558$349,716$29,071,204$34,798,412
2019$2,523,937$4,551,159$348,612$39,677,219$47,100,927
2018$2,800,018$5,942,967$387,129$37,244,551$46,374,665
2017$3,658,823$6,328,281$811,524$28,437,108$39,235,736

Environment and Climate Change Canada’s share of federal net spending

Other organizations in Environment and Climate Change