A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy.

A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy (the Plan) builds on the Pan-Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change and is the federal plan to build a better future with a healthier economy and environment. Based on the Government's projections the proposed actions outlined in the Plan, once fully implemented, will enable Canada to exceed its current 2030 target. The Government of Canada is committed to all of the actions in this plan and committed to exceeding the current 2030 reduction goal.
A Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy contains 64 strengthened and new federal policies, programs and investments to cut pollution and build a stronger, cleaner, more resilient and inclusive economy. Some of the investments in this plan will begin immediately, other measures require engagement with provinces and territories, with stakeholders and Indigenous partners, and with Canadians.
The Plan will achieve its objectives through five pillars: 1) Making the Places Canadians Live and Gather More Affordable by Cutting Energy Waste; this entails that energy efficient homes and buildings will be more comfortable and cost less and consequently this will cut pollution and create job and careers. 2) Making Clean, Affordable Transportation and Power Available in Every Community; this will be done by expanding the supply of clean electricity through investments in renewable and next-generation clean energy and technology, and encourage cleaner modes of transportation. 3) Continuing to Ensure Pollution isn’t Free and Households Get More Money Back; the Government will continue to put a price on carbon while ensuring that the majority of households receive more money back than they pay. 4) Building Canada’s Clean Industrial Advantage; through performance standards, investments and incentives, Canada will accelerate the work that its companies and innovators are doing to cut pollution and move to a cleaner economy, this will protect and create jobs now and into the future. 5) Embracing the Power of Nature to Support Healthier Families and More Resilient Communities: just as nature is under threat by climate change, it is also as an ally in the fight against it. By planting trees and protecting its lands and oceans the Plan aims at cutting pollution, make communities more resilient to extreme weather and create thousands of jobs.
The Plan sets out a range of actions designed to respond to Indigenous peoples’ climate priorities, under which is listed food security. For instance the Plan commits to enhance responsiveness to addressing vulnerabilities in Indigenous food systems and improving food security, including developing an evidence base that leads to strengthened food security programs and interventions.
To enable more inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems, proposed interventions aim to work with small businesses across the country and in all sectors (including and in particular agri-food businesses) to get their feedback on all potential ways to further support them in taking actions, through rebates, targeted investments, and other supports, to make their production more efficient and sustainable.
To increase the resilience of livelihoods to disasters, main actions are directed to help farmers and food businesses continue to develop and implement clean practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ensure agriculture remains a leading part of the solution to climate change.