Canada's greenhouse gas emissions on the gross National Inventory Report basis: the national total and seven-sector breakdown, 1990 to 2024, excluding LULUCF
National greenhouse gas emissions as reported in the National Inventory Report, 2026 edition (1990-2024, submitted to the UNFCCC as a joint submission with Canada's second Biennial Transparency Report) -- the economic-sector table's National Inventory Total row and its seven constituent sectors (Oil and Gas, Electricity, Transportation, Heavy Industry, Buildings, Agriculture, Waste and others -- the last combining the file's Waste, Coal Production, and Light Manufacturing/Construction/Forest Resources rows to match the government's own projections-report sector grouping). Excludes Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector emissions and removals (the NIR's own footnote on its national totals); 100-year Global Warming Potential values are the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) convention. This is the newest publicly reported inventory year (2024) on any Canadian GHG accounting basis, and the vintage against which the target-accounting entry's NIR2025-based figures can be seen to move.
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The lineage
| Vintage | Issuer | Published | Position | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| NIR 2026 edition | Environment and Climate Change Canada | 2026-04-14 | current | Source → · accessed 2026-07-21 |
| Vintage | Period | Value | Role | Assurance | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NIR 2026 edition | 1990 (earliest reported year) | 607.9 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005 (target base year, gross-inventory basis) | 763.0 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2007 (highest national total in the pinned record) | 778.6 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2015 | 743.4 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019 (last pre-pandemic year) | 748.0 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2020 (pandemic-shock year -- a 67.1 Mt one-year drop from 2019) | 680.9 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2021 | 691.3 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2022 | 695.9 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2023 (revised this vintage) | 686.9 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024 (latest reported year on the gross-inventory basis) | 684.7 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Oil and Gas sector | 197.6 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Oil and Gas sector | 222.8 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Oil and Gas sector | 207.6 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Electricity sector | 115.9 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Electricity sector | 61.6 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Electricity sector | 49.6 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Transportation sector | 156.2 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Transportation sector | 168.8 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Transportation sector | 151.4 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Heavy Industry sector | 88.6 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Heavy Industry sector | 80.3 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Heavy Industry sector | 77.5 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Buildings sector | 84.7 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Buildings sector | 93.9 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Buildings sector | 81.4 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Agriculture sector | 66.2 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Agriculture sector | 69.4 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Agriculture sector -- one of only two sectors above its 2005 level | 69.8 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2005, Waste and others sector (Waste, Coal Production, and Light Manufacturing/Construction/Forest Resources rows combined) | 53.8 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2019, Waste and others sector | 51.2 Mt CO2e | revised observation | — | — |
| NIR 2026 edition | 2024, Waste and others sector | 47.5 Mt CO2e | preliminary observation | — | — |
Evidence qualifications (3)
- Excludes Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry sector emissions and removals; this is the gross basis, not the basis Canada's targets are assessed against (see the target-accounting entry for that basis, which adds the LULUCF accounting contribution to a differently-vintaged four-sector total).
- Every historical year in this Resolution is subject to revision at the next National Inventory Report vintage; the 2024 value is this vintage's newest and least-revised year, the most likely to move at the next edition.
- The seven-sector grouping used here (Oil and Gas, Electricity, Transportation, Heavy Industry, Buildings, Agriculture, Waste and others) is Countability's own restatement of the inventory's economic-sector categories, chosen to match the government's own projections-report grouping for comparability; it is not itself an official category name in the underlying file.
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