Canadian businesses spent $26.6 billion to protect the environment in 2021, an increase of 16.3% from 2020. Businesses allocated three-fifths (60.2%) of these expenditures to resource management activities, while the remaining expenditures (39.8%) were devoted to environmental protection activities. In four years, the share of resource management expenditures increased from 51.0% in 2018 to 60.2% in 2021.
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