Environmental protection expenditures by businesses, 2022

February 28, 2025, 3:30 p.m. (EST)

Canadian businesses spent $27.4 billion on environmental protection in 2022, up 3.2% from 2021. In 2022, Canadian businesses continued to put more than half (56.8%) of their spending towards resource management activities, compared with 43.2% put towards environmental protection activities.

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