Statistics Canada tracks the linkage between each of the macroeconomic sectors and the economy and key environment factors – energy and water consumption and green house gas production.

The economy is sliced and diced in various ways depending on the objective of analyses. Total demand is segmented into five economic sectors:

1. personal consumption expenditures
2. non-profit institutions serving households (think churches and the like)
3. government net current consumption expenditure
4. gross fixed capital formation
5. international exports

All goods and services produced in Canada is consumed by one of the five broad sectors.

Energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are tied to the pace and level of human induced climate change. Energy consumption is measured as the number of gigajoules to produce one thousand dollars of product output in current dollars, i.e. not adjusted for inflation. 

Greenhouse gas emissions are based on the kilograms of carbon dioxide emitted per thousand dollars of output.

In each case the energy and greenhouse gas emissions are based on the direct effect (the production of ten good or service) and the indirect impacts (in the associated industries in support of the product production. Statistics uses this example:

An example of direct greenhouse gas emissions would be those released by the combustion of natural gas in a restaurant kitchen to cook a hamburger, while indirect emissions would include the methane released from cattle farms to produce beef for the hamburger.

Energy consumption. No clear evidence of any degree of energy conservation over the period 2009 to 2020 with all years at or above 2009 consumption. The noticeable decline in 2020 may reflect the effect of the covid-19 recession.

Greenhouse Gas Emissions. In spite of high profile efforts to reduce greenhouse gases emissions showed no sign of reduction. The reduction in 2020 may reflect reductions attributable to the shut down of the economy in response to the covid-19 pandemic.

The associated spreadsheet is attached.