Canadian businesses sold $19.5 billion worth of environmental and clean technology goods in 2020, while sales of related services accounted for $11.1 billion.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for the manufacturing sector and was likely the cause of declines in revenues across most areas in this sector in Canada. The clean technology sector remained stable, with a 3.3% increase in domestic and export sales of goods and a 9.5% rise in domestic and export sales of services.
Several subsectors contributed to the $616 million increase in revenues from domestic and export sales of environmental and clean technology goods in Canada in 2020. They include clean energy equipment; industrial wastewater and municipal sewage treatment technologies; and bioenergy production equipment and biofuel, biomaterial and biochemical production. Decreases were noted in 7 of the 12 subsectors.
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