Environment and Climate Change Canada
What Environment and Climate Change Canada spent in fiscal year 2025-26: its net expenditure by standard object, from the Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II.
Reports through Environment and Climate Change; the overview shows it in that ministry.
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, 2025-26
Net spending, 2025-26
$3.03B
spent by Environment and Climate Change Canada, less revenues it kept
Share, 2025-26
0.6%
of the net spending of every federal organization
How did Environment and Climate Change Canada spend its budget in 2025-26?
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, 2025-26
Transfer payments
Personnel
Professional and special services
Rentals
Acquisition of machinery and equipment
Utilities, materials and supplies
Transportation and communications
Repair and maintenance
Information
Other subsidies and payments
Acquisition of land, buildings and works
Public debt charges
Internal revenues
External revenues
$1.7B
$1.04B
$183M
$42.7M
$38.1M
$34.2M
$33.4M
$19.8M
$8.8M
$6M
$2.9M
$134K
-$24.6M
-$53.1M
Total: $3.03B.
Workforce, 2025-26
Personnel spending
$1.04B
salaries, wages and benefits (the personnel standard object)
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, 2025-26
The grants, contributions and other transfers Environment and Climate Change Canada paid, program by program: $1.7B in all, against $1.7B for the transfer payments object above (the Public Accounts publish the two tables separately).
| Grant Program to Return Fuel Charge Proceeds to Indigenous GovernmentsPayments | Grant | $443,421,717 |
| Grant to the Our Land for the Future Trust - Northwest Territories Project Finance for PermanencePayments | Grant | $300,000,000 |
| Contributions in support of the Canada Nature FundPayments | Contribution | $280,259,865 |
| Contributions in support of the Output-Based Pricing System Proceeds FundPayments | Contribution | $242,999,837 |
| Contributions in support of the Low Carbon Economy FundPayments | Contribution | $233,055,003 |
| Contributions in support of Conserving NaturePayments | Contribution | $85,863,530 |
| Contributions in support of Taking Action on Clean Growth and Climate ChangePayments | Contribution | $33,824,915 |
| Contributions in support of Canada's International Climate Finance ProgramPayments | Contribution | $24,972,235 |
| Contributions in support of the Youth Employment and Skills StrategyPayments | Contribution | $16,743,451 |
| Contributions in support of Preventing and Managing PollutionPayments | Contribution | $15,472,535 |
| Grants in support of Canada's International Climate Finance ProgramPayments | Grant | $12,130,100 |
| Grant for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone LayerPayments | Grant | $3,600,000 |
| Contributions in support of Predicting Weather and Environmental ConditionsPayments | Contribution | $3,507,462 |
| Assessed contribution to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)Payments | Contribution | $2,904,938 |
| Contributions in support of the Impact Assessment and Regulatory SystemPayments | Contribution | $2,852,370 |
| 23 programs | $1,702,444,301 | |
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 year | Goods | Services | Construction | Acquisition cards | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Sources
- Public Accounts of Canada 2026, Volume II: Ministerial expenditures by standard object (Table 3)
- Public Accounts of Canada, Volume II: Transfer payments (multi-year open data)
- Proactive Publication - Contracts: Aggregated Total - Contracts $10K and under
Department figures are net expenditure (Public Accounts, Volume II), which doesn’t add up to the accrual expenses of the overview’s headline. See the methodology.
