Climate targets: Public Sector

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  4 targets

  • reducing the embodied carbon of the structural materials of major construction projects by 30%, starting in 2025
    Public Sector | Target year: 2025
    Source:

    A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy

    Executive | 2021

  • Government properties will run on 100% renewables by 2025
    Public Sector | Target year: 2025
    Source:

    Greening Government Strategy

    Executive | 2020

  • reducing the embodied carbon of the structural materials of major construction projects by 30%, starting in 2025
    Public Sector | Target year: 2025
    Source:

    Greening Government Strategy

    Executive | 2020

  • The Government of Canada’s operations will be net-zero emissions by 2050 including:  
    
    
    • government-owned and leased real property
    • mobility: fleets, business travel and commuting
    • procurement of goods and services
    • national safety and security operations
      
      
    To implement net-zero in real property and fleet operations,
    the Government of Canada will reduce absolute Scope 1 and Scope 2
    GHG emissions by 40% by 2025 and by at least 90% below 2005 levels by 2050. On this emissions reduction pathway, the government will aspire to reduce emissions by an additional 10% each 5 years starting in 2025.
    
    
    Net-zero means reducing GHG emissions from operations to as close to zero as possible and then balancing out any remaining emissions with an equivalent amount of carbon removal.
    Public Sector | Fixed level target | Target year: 2050 | Base year: 2020
    Source:

    Greening Government Strategy

    Executive | 2020

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