Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
1. Context for the Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy
The 2016–2019 Federal Sustainable Development Strategy (FSDS):
- sets out the Government of Canada's sustainable development priorities;
- establishes goals and targets; and
- identifies actions to achieve them, as required by the Federal Sustainable Development Act
In keeping with the objectives of the act to make environmental decision-making more transparent and accountable to Parliament, the Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) supports reporting on the implementation of the FSDS and its Departmental Sustainable Development Strategy, or equivalent document, through the activities described in this supplementary information table.
2. Sustainable development in CanNor
Although CanNor is not bound by the Federal Sustainable Development Act and is not required to develop a departmental sustainable development strategy (FSDS), CanNor adheres to the principles of the FSDS by implementing the Policy on Green Procurement.
3. Departmental performance by FSDS goal
| FSDS target(s) | FSDS contributing action(s) | Corresponding departmental action(s) | Support for United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (UN SDG) target | Starting point(s), target(s) and performance indicator(s) for departmental actions | Results achieved |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reduce greenhouse gas emissions from federal government buildings and fleets by 40% below 2005 levels by 2030, with an aspiration to achieve it by 2025 | Support the transition to a low-carbon economy through green procurement | N/A | N/A | Starting point (baseline): N/A Target: N/A Performance indicator: N/A |
N/A |
4. Report on integrating sustainable development
During the 2018–19 reporting cycle, CanNor had no proposals that required a Strategic Environmental Assessment and no public statements were produced.