Backgrounders

This section offers a listing of the department's backgrounders issued in the last year. These backgrounders provide supplementary information on various Environment Canada programs, services and initiatives. The menu on the left allows you to explore these backgrounders by subjects of Acts and Regulations, Air, Climate Change, Enforcement, Environmental Emergencies, Environmental Indicators, Funding, Nature, Pollution and Waste, Science and Technology, Sustainable Development, Water, and Weather and Meteorology.

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  • Joint Canada-Alberta Oil Sands Monitoring Data Portal

    On February 3, 2012, the Governments of Canada and Alberta announced the Joint Canada-Alberta Implementation Plan for Oil Sands Monitoring.

    (Published date:2013-04-22)
  • Contributions under the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund (GLSF) for Areas of Concern Projects 2012-2013

    Contributions under the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund (GLSF) for Areas of Concern Projects 2012-2013

    (Published date:2013-03-22)
  • The Great Lakes Sustainability Fund

    The Great Lakes Sustainability Fund (GLSF) supports projects to remediate each of Canada’s 14 remaining Areas of Concern or “degraded areas” within the Great Lakes Basin. Since 1989, the Great Lakes Sustainability Fund has contributed approximately $110 million to more than 900 partnered projects to improve water quality in these areas. To date, three of the 17 original Canadian Areas of Concern have been fully restored.

    (Published date:2013-03-22)
  • Japan’s 2011 Earthquake and Tsunami

    The earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11, 2011, is a human tragedy—the disaster claimed approximately 16,000 lives, injured 6,000, and destroyed or damaged countless buildings.

    (Published date:2013-03-13)
  • Canada Continues to Align Greenhouse Gas Emissions Measures

    Today, the Government of Canada took further action to address greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the transportation sector, the largest source of GHG emissions in Canada, while continuing to align GHG measures with the United States.

    (Published date:2013-02-25)