Environment and Climate Change Canada

Environment and Climate Change Canada informs Canadians about protecting and conserving our natural heritage and ensuring a clean, safe and sustainable environment for present and future generations. It achieves so through the implementation of the Pan-Canadian Framework on clean growth and climate change, engagement with our strategic partners (e.g., provinces, territories and Indigenous peoples), monitoring, science-based research, policy and regulatory development, and the enforcement of environmental laws.

Environment Canada’s Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis (CCCma) is located at the University of Victoria. Its purpose is to develop and apply sophisticated global and regional climate models to make quantitative projections of future climate in Canada and globally, and to improve understanding of climate variability and change.

Located in downtown Vancouver, the Douglas Jung Building houses both Environment Canada’s and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans’ offices. The site supports a number of Departmental business lines, the executive offices of the region, and a 24/7 weather operation. Science and technology activities at the site include freshwater quality monitoring and surveillance, marine water quality monitoring, and Canadian Environmental Protection Act Substances Risk Assessment.