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Physical flow accounts: Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, 2014

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Released: 2016-09-07

Energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by industries and households

Total energy use by industries and households in Canada increased 1.2% in 2014, following a 3.0% rise the previous year. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, which were up 2.2% in 2013, rose 0.5% in 2014.

These changes took place as economic growth, as measured by gross domestic product, was 2.1% in 2013 and 2.5% in 2014.

Households continued to be the largest users of energy in 2014, accounting for 24.0% of national energy use, up from a 23.5% share in 2013. Conversely, households were responsible for 19.2% of national GHG emissions, as a relatively large share of the composition of household energy use is electricity, which does not directly contribute to GHG emissions.

Energy use in the utilities and construction industries declined for a fourth consecutive year. These industries represented 12.3% of total energy use in 2014, down from a 12.6% share in 2013.

GHG emissions continued to grow in the mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction industries, which remained the largest source of GHG emissions in 2014, accounting for 22.9% of the national total. These industries are more prominent in terms of GHG emissions than in energy use because of fugitive emissions from oil and gas extraction.

GHG emissions in the agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting industries (accounting for 10.9% of national GHG emissions) are similarly pushed higher by the contribution of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from crop and animal production.

In manufacturing and in other services and public administration, the share of GHG emissions is lower compared with the share of energy use because electricity represents a large proportion of energy use in these sectors.


  Note to readers

Statistics Canada's physical flow accounts record the annual flows of selected natural resources, products and residuals between the Canadian economy and the environment. Data are presented to reflect the activities of industries, households and governments, and follow the classification system used in Statistics Canada's input-output accounts. These data are available at the national level only.

Preliminary data for 2014 from the physical flow accounts are now available for energy use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Data from 2009 to 2013 on energy use and GHG emissions were updated with revised source data.

Energy use and GHG emissions intensities per industry for 2009 to 2012 were revised to reflect the updates to energy use and GHG emissions data.

A revised table for 2009 to 2012 on energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by final demand category is now available, again to reflect the updates to energy use and GHG emissions data.

Environment and Climate Change Canada is responsible for producing Canada's National Inventory Report on Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks. This inventory fulfills Canada's reporting obligations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and is the official benchmark for GHG emissions in Canada. The reporting requirements of the UNFCCC differ from the methodological guidelines of the United Nations System of Environmental–Economic Accounting used to create the greenhouse gas account described here. For more information on these differences, see the physical flow accounts survey page (5115).

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