Greenhouse gas emissions are critical contributing factor driving climate change. Much of Canadian climate change policy is directed to reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions generated by domestic economic activity.

Statistics Canada reports the intensity of greenhouse gas emissions by industry as tonnes of emissions per thousand current dollars of production.

As shown in Figure 1 above the intensity of GHG emissions declined over the reporting period. A number of factors could contribute to the decline including more effective technologies, changes of product mix and the changes to the structural composition of Canadian industry. These effects can be investigated by normalizing the economic and product structure. This is beyond the terms of this note.

Total GNG emissions also declined over this period major factors that may contribute to the reduction include the covid-19 induced economic recession.

Attached is a spreadsheet with the reported GNH emissions in detail, by industry, economic sector and province/territory. The data tab is set up to be filtered by the afore mentioned factors as well as by year. Two additional tabs have already filtered the data base by (1) total GHG by province/territory, (2) GNG by the household sector and (3) GNG by industry. The reader is welcome to download the database and investigate.