Investments in climate and nature action, and reducing pollution, are crucial for success on the Prime Minister’s seven priorities, particularly for a strong Canadian economy, bringing down costs for Canadians, more affordable housing, and attracting the best talent.
Amidst economic uncertainty, worsening climate, biodiversity and pollution crises, and fiscal limits, it is critical to preserve current capacity and further invest in strategic measures to ensure that Canada flourishes in the years ahead with dependable clean energy, energy efficient housing, climate resilience, treasured nature areas and biodiversity, healthy people, and reliable chemicals management.
For Budget 2025, the Green Budget Coalition is featuring five recommendations, as part of a comprehensive package of timely and financially-astute recommendations:
- Preserving federal environmental capacity amidst Comprehensive Expenditure Review
- Modern, resilient East-West electricity grid based on renewables
- Climate resilient housing
- Delivering on nature commitments
- Permanently fund Chemicals Management Plan
For all new and ongoing programs, we emphasize the importance of effective implementation, monitoring, and evaluation to ensure successful outcomes. In that context, it is critical to maintain the government’s core capacity for environmental governance and environmental and climate science, programs, and policy. At the same time, further progress on funding, fiscal measures, and regulations is required.