Environment Canada's Science Plan

A Blueprint for Managing and Conducting Science over the Next 10 Years

Long-term directions to guide development of our science, implemented through the results management framework, which is how we now operate.

Science is what we do: around 70% of our budget and about two-thirds of our staff are dedicated to environmental S&T.
To fulfill our mission, our science must be excellent, timely and relevant.
This science strategy will assist us in fulfilling the four core roles of federal science:

Ensure that EC's science activities continue to contribute to government and departmental priorities.
Create opportunities for greater integration of science within EC, and improved collaboration with science partners outside the Department.
Promote the highest standard of scientific excellence to help EC deliver on its program, policy and service responsibilities.
Broker high-quality environmental science to policy makers and science users.
Ensure that EC uses its science resources effectively.
Assist our corporate-wide infrastructure to better support science.
Guide us to mobilize national and international science, attract and keep skilled staff, grow science leaders, and continue to mature as a world-class science organization.

A multidisciplinary environmental monitoring and prediction capability to better understand the changing state of the environment.
Strategies and tools to anticipate and comprehend the cumulative impacts on human and ecosystem health from multiple stressors interacting over time.
Scientific knowledge to help reduce risks and take advantage of opportunities arising from the changing environment, while building greater resilience in Canada's environment, communities and key economic sectors.