Update to Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy for 2020 to 2023

The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) has committed to expanding and continually updating its Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy (DSDS) for 2020 to 2023 to incorporate new decisions, actions and targets.

Since it tabled its DSDS in October 2020, TBS has made the following changes to align with the updated Greening Government Strategy, which was released in November 2020:

updated the Greening Government objective to reflect the strategy’s more ambitious and expanded commitments
advanced the target date for achieving a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 2030 to 2025 for real property and conventional fleet

Greening Government: The Government of Canada will transition to net‑zero carbon and climate-resilient operations, while also reducing environmental impacts beyond carbon, including on waste, water and biodiversity^{Footnote i}

FSDS target(s)	FSDS contributing action(s)	Corresponding departmental action(s)	Contribution by each departmental action to the FSDS goal and target	Starting point(s) Performance indicator(s) Target(s)	Program(s) in which the departmental actions will occur
Reduce GHG emissions from federal government facilities and fleets by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030 (with an aspiration to achieve this target by 2025) and 80% below 2005 levels by 2050 (with an aspiration to be carbon neutral)	Publicly disclose detailed environmental performance information on government operations (in particular, a complete inventory of federal greenhouse gas emissions and energy use) on the Greening Government website each year	Aggregate and publish environmental performance information on government operations on the Greening Government website each year, including an inventory of federal greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, as well as other environmental performance measures Provide annual updates on the overall reductions in GHG emissions from federal government facilities and fleets	FSDS: Monitoring and reporting environmental performance information is critical for ensuring that the government is on track with respect to its long-term targets and for upholding the principles of transparency and open data SDG: SDG 13: Climate action	Starting point: 32.6% reduction in GHG emissions as of 2018–19 Target: 40% reduction by 2025^{Footnote ii} Indicator: percentage reduction in Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from federal facilities and fleets (excluding national safety and security) from base year 2005–06	Centre for Greening Government
Actions supporting the Goal: Greening Government	Departments will adopt clean technology and undertake clean technology demonstration projects	Provide project funding to federal government departments and agencies to test or implement innovative approaches to reducing GHG emissions in their operations, through the Greening Government Fund	FSDS: Supporting the use of innovative clean technologies will help reduce the environmental footprint of government operations while contributing to the success of clean-tech businesses in Canada. SDG: SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure	Starting point: In 2019–20, the Greening Government Fund allocated $9.8 million over 4 years Target: 100% of available funding is allocated to projects Indicators: percentage of available funding committed to projects	Centre for Greening Government
By 2022, departments have developed measures to reduce climate change risks to assets, services and operations	Increase training and support on assessing climate change impacts, undertaking climate change risk assessments and developing adaptation actions for public service employees, and facilitate sharing of best practices and lessons learned	Undertake an assessment of potential climate impacts that may affect TBS operations and programs Develop measures to reduce identified risks, where warranted	Understanding the likelihood and severity of climate change impacts and taking action to reduce identified risks contributes to more resilient services and operations SDG: SDG 13: Climate action Target: 13.1	Starting point: Work is underway to complete TBS’s climate risk assessment Target: By 2020–21, complete a departmental climate risk assessment and, by 2022–23, develop measures to reduce identified risks, where warranted Indicators: completion of climate risk assessment for TBS, and development of measures to reduce climate change risks to TBS’s assets, services and operations, where warranted	Centre for Greening Government

FSDS target(s)

FSDS contributing action(s)

Corresponding departmental action(s)

Contribution by each departmental action to the FSDS goal and target

Starting point(s) Performance indicator(s) Target(s)

Program(s) in which the departmental actions will occur

Reduce GHG emissions from federal government facilities and fleets by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030 (with an aspiration to achieve this target by 2025) and 80% below 2005 levels by 2050 (with an aspiration to be carbon neutral)

Publicly disclose detailed environmental performance information on government operations (in particular, a complete inventory of federal greenhouse gas emissions and energy use) on the Greening Government website each year

Aggregate and publish environmental performance information on government operations on the Greening Government website each year, including an inventory of federal greenhouse gas emissions and energy use, as well as other environmental performance measures

Provide annual updates on the overall reductions in GHG emissions from federal government facilities and fleets

FSDS:
Monitoring and reporting environmental performance information is critical for ensuring that the government is on track with respect to its long-term targets and for upholding the principles of transparency and open data

SDG: SDG 13: Climate action

Starting point: 32.6% reduction in GHG emissions as of 2018–19

Target: 40% reduction by 2025^{Footnote ii}

Indicator: percentage reduction in Scope 1 and 2 GHG emissions from federal facilities and fleets (excluding national safety and security) from base year 2005–06

Centre for Greening Government

Actions supporting the Goal: Greening Government

Departments will adopt clean technology and undertake clean technology demonstration projects

Provide project funding to federal government departments and agencies to test or implement innovative approaches to reducing GHG emissions in their operations, through the Greening Government Fund

FSDS:
Supporting the use of innovative clean technologies will help reduce the environmental footprint of government operations while contributing to the success of clean-tech businesses in Canada.

SDG: SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Starting point: In 2019–20, the Greening Government Fund allocated $9.8 million over 4 years

Target: 100% of available funding is allocated to projects

Indicators: percentage of available funding committed to projects

Centre for Greening Government

By 2022, departments have developed measures to reduce climate change risks to assets, services and operations

Increase training and support on assessing climate change impacts, undertaking climate change risk assessments and developing adaptation actions for public service employees, and facilitate sharing of best practices and lessons learned

Undertake an assessment of potential climate impacts that may affect TBS operations and programs

Develop measures to reduce identified risks, where warranted

Understanding the likelihood and severity of climate change impacts and taking action to reduce identified risks contributes to more resilient services and operations

SDG: SDG 13: Climate action

Target: 13.1

Starting point: Work is underway to complete TBS’s climate risk assessment

Target: By 2020–21, complete a departmental climate risk assessment and, by 2022–23, develop measures to reduce identified risks, where warranted

Indicators: completion of climate risk assessment for TBS, and development of measures to reduce climate change risks to TBS’s assets, services and operations, where warranted

Centre for Greening Government

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Date modified:: 2021-02-25

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