Key Actions Since 2015 to Fight Climate Change

  • Introduced Canada’s first-ever national climate plan in 2016, becoming the first government to set a climate target and lay out a path to meeting it.
  • Invested over $100 billion towards climate action and clean growth.
  • Took action to get to net-zero emissions by 2050 and enshrined Canada’s net-zero goal into law.
  • Advanced a ban on harmful single-use plastics, committed to eliminating plastic waste by 2030, and have already banned microbeads in toiletries.
  • Made sure pollution isn’t free anywhere in Canada and put more money in the pockets of hard-working families wherever the federal system applies.
  • Laid out a plan to plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years and support other nature-based climate solutions like the conservation of wetlands, peatlands, croplands, and grasslands that sequester carbon and keep ecosystems intact.
  • Committed to help Canadians improve the energy efficiency of their homes and reduce their energy bills by providing homeowners with up to $5,000 in grants to retrofit their homes and moving forward on a plan to make interest-free loans of up to $40,000 available.
  • Offered rebates of up to $5,000 to 100,000 Canadians who have purchased electric vehicles and helped build enough charging stations that you can drive from St. John’s to Victoria in an electric vehicle.
  • Committed to ensuring 100% of vehicles sold in Canada be zero-emission by 2035 and supporting automakers and auto-workers to produce in Canada.
  • Helped people get where they need to go in cheaper, cleaner, and faster ways by making historic investments of over $25 billion in public transit.
  • Exceeded Canada’s goal of protecting 10% of our oceans by 2020, going from less than 1% in 2015 to just under 14% in 2020.
  • Made the largest investment in nature conservation in Canada’s history—$1.3 billion in Budget 2018 and $3.3 billion in Budget 2021—which will allow us to reach our goal of protecting 25% of our lands and waters by 2025.
  • Funded Indigenous leadership in nature conservation, including Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas and establishing the Indigenous Guardians programs which supports Indigenous peoples’ connections with their traditional lands, waters, and ice.
  • Launched a network of new national urban parks, with seven locations across seven provinces currently underway in Montreal, Edmonton, Colwood near Victoria, Halifax, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, and Windsor.
  • Established the Natural Infrastructure Fund which is supporting community-led projects in six cities across the country: the Toronto Ravine Strategy, Vancouver’s Rain City Strategy, the City of Montreal’s Vision 2030 Strategic Plan, Halifax’s Green Network Plan, Saskatoon’s Green Strategy, and Winnipeg’s Parks Strategy.
  • Launched the $8 billion Net Zero Accelerator Initiative to decarbonize heavy industry like steel and aluminum, secure Canada’s clean industrial advantage, and create green jobs.
  • Cut taxes in half for businesses that manufacture zero- emissions products.
  • Ensured a stable market transition to a low-carbon economy by requiring Canada’s Crown corporations to adopt the public reporting standards of Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures and working with provinces and territories to make it a part of regular disclosures by a broad spectrum of the Canadian economy.
  • Introduced tougher rules for managing chemicals that will enshrine Canadians’ right to a healthy environment for the first time in our history.
  • Initiated the development of Canada’s first-ever National Adaptation Strategy.
  • Invested over $3.4 billion towards the Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Fund to ensure Canadians are prepared for and protected from the impacts of climate change.