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Environmental and resource accounts

The environmental and resource accounts present detailed statistics describing 1) the size of Canada’s natural resource stocks and their contribution to national wealth; 2) the extraction of these same resources and their disposition among businesses, households, governments and the rest of the world; 3) the generation of various wastes (liquid, solid and gaseous) by industries, households and governments and the management of these wastes; and 4) the expenditures made by businesses, households and governments for the purposes of protecting the environment. The accounts are, to the greatest extent possible, compatible with the System of National Economic Accounts. They were developed in response to the need to better monitor the relationship between economic activity and the environment. See about the environmental and resource accounts.

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