February 2000 Federal Budget

$150 million
($50 million per year for three years beginning in April 2001)

To extend the Climate Change Action Fund (CCAF). Initially announced in the February 1998 Budget with a funding level of $150 million ($50 million per year for three years beginning in April 1998).

$60 million
($20 million per year for three years beginning in April 2001)

To extend funding for four energy efficiency and renewable energy programs: Commercial Building Incentive Program, Energy Innovators Plus, EnerGuide for Houses, and Renewable Energy Deployment Initiative. Initially announced in the February 1997 Budget with a funding level of $60 million ($20 million per year for three years beginning in April 1998).

$25 million
(over five years)

To establish a Green Municipal Enabling Fund: a five-year endowment fund to help support or cost-share feasibility studies of projects designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve air and water quality, as well as to encourage the sustainable use of renewable and non-renewable resources.

To be administered through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The funds will operate at arm's length from the federal government.

$100 million

To establish a Green Municipal Investment Fund: an endowment fund to operate in perpetuity to provide loans, loan guarantees, and grants to enable recipients to carry out direct energy efficiency measures such as retrofitting of buildings and public transit systems, which will result in reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

To be administered through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. The funds will operate at arm's length from the federal government.

$100 million

To establish the Sustainable Development Technology Fund: a fund to focus on environmental technologies, in particular, those for climate change and air quality solutions.

To be administered through a separate not-for-profit organization (the Canadian Foundation for Sustainable Development Technology), which will operate at arm's length from the federal government.

$60 million

To establish the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences to carry out science research in climate change, extreme weather, and air quality.

To be administered through a separate not-for-profit corporation (the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences), which will operate at arm's length from the federal government.

$15 million

To provide funds to expand federal purchases of "green power" (power generated in a sustainable fashion from renewable energy sources).

October 2000 Economic Statement

$500 million
(over five years)

Government of Canada's contribution to the First National Climate Change Business Plan, as part of the National Implementation Strategy on Climate Change, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by investing in specific actions.

$1.01 billion

TOTAL