Introduction
1.	Drivers of environmental change.
Biodiversity and protected areas
1.	Total and strictly protected land in Canada.
2.	Number of strictly protected sites in Canada in each size range.
3.	Change in status of reassessed species at risk.
4.	Strictly protected ecoregions in Canada.
5.	Number of endangered and threatened species, subspecies and populations in each of Canada's ecozones.
Toxic substances
1.	Percent change in emissions of 15 CEPA toxic substances.
2.	Canadian atmospheric emissions of mercury.
3.	Substances identified as toxic - listed on schedule 1 under CEPA.
4.	Contaminants levels in Double-crested Cormorant eggs.
Acid rain
1.	Sulphur dioxide emissions for eastern Canada.
2.	Nitrogen oxide emissions for Canada.
3.	Trends in lake sulphate levels in southeastern Canada.
4.	Trends in lake acidity in southeastern Canada.
5.	Wet sulphate and wet nitrate deposition in eastern North America.
Climate change
1.	Canadian Greenhouse Gas emissions.
2.	Global Greenhouse Gas emissions.
3.	Carbon dioxide concentrations.
4.	Canadian temperature variations.
5.	Global temperature variations.
6.	Number of weather-related disasters.
Stratospheric ozone
1.	Average annual ozone levels.
2.	Atmospheric concentrations of ozone-depleting substances.
3.	New supplies of ozone depleting substances.
4.	Global CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) production.
Municipal water use
1.	Daily municipal water use.
2.	Total daily municipal water use.
3.	Metered residential water use.
Municipal Wastewater Treatment
1.	Municipal population served by secondary and tertiary wastewater treatment.
2.	Total estimated phosphorous loadings to Canadian waters from municipal wastewater treatment plants.
3.	Level of treatment of municipal wastewaters in Canadian coastal and inland receiving waters, 1999.
Urban air quality
1.	Levels of ground-level ozone in Canada.
2.	Ambient levels of other air pollutants.
3.	Levels of fine particulate matter.
4.	Emissions of volatile organic compounds.
Forestry
1.	Strictly protected forest area in selected forest ecozones.
2.	Population status of forest bird species in selected forested ecozones.
3.	Total area harvested.
4.	Number of forest fires in Canada and area burned.
5.	Consecutive years of spruce budworm defoliation.
Agricultural soils
1.	Bare soil days.
2.	Residual nitrogen.
3.	Agricultural land subject to unsustainable water erosion.
4.	Prairie agricultural land subject to unsustainable wind erosion.
5.	Prairie agricultural land subject to unsustainable salinization.
Energy consumption
1.	Canadian energy consumption.
2.	Canadian fossil fuel consumption.
3.	Global fossil fuel consumption.
4.	Secondary canadian energy use.
Passenger transportation
1.	Passenger travel by mode.
2.	Fossil fuel used by automobiles, vans, and light trucks.
3.	Fuel efficiency of new passenger vehicles.
4.	Urban automobile and transit use.
Municipal solid waste
1.	Per capita non-hazardous solid waste disposal and recycling/reuse.
2.	Total non-hazardous solid waste disposal and recycling/reuse.

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