On April 7, 2022, the federal government released Budget 2022. The budget comes in the wake of the government’s recently released 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, and the latest alarming IPCC report reaffirming the increasingly urgent need for climate action.
We’ve gathered analysis and reactions from the non-profit sector to the budget with a focus on the environment and climate change.
Environmental groups have been generally supportive of the budget’s commitment to conservation activities, while remaining concerned over continued subsidies to the oil and gas sector, inadequate support for a just transition, and skepticism about the support for unproven technological fixes such as carbon capture and sequestration and small modular reactors to cut carbon emissions.
NGO Responses
- Federal Budget Funding for New Nuclear Reactors a ‘Climate Throwaway’ (Canadian Environmental Law Association
- CPAWS welcomes the investment of an additional $780 million in the Nature Smart Climate Solutions Fund announced by the federal government as part of Budget 2022 (Canadian Parks and Wilderness Association)
- Federal Budget Offers Promising News for Conservation (Canadian Wildlife Federation)
- Federal Budget 2022: Summary and analysis (Canadian Union of Public Employees)
- Federal budget fails on government’s promise to phase out public financing for oil and gas (David Suzuki Foundation)
- Federal Budget 2022: A fiscal plan with a focus on climate (Ducks Unlimited Canada)
- Experts Respond to the 2022 Federal Budget (Environmental Defence)
- A Federal budget that barely gets passing mark in environment (Équiterre)
- How Did Nature Fare in Budget 2022? Investments in Nature and Climate Compromised by New Fossil Fuel Subsidies (Nature Canada)
- Budget 2022: Some progress, but no need for panic at the country club (The Monitor/CCPA)
- Lawyers warn of carbon-capture subsidies in Budget 2022 (West Coast Environmental Law)
- 2022 budget shows commitment to nature in fight against climate change: WWF-Canada (WWF-Canada)
Carbon Capture & Storage
- Buyer Beware: Fossil Fuels Subsidies and Carbon Capture Fairy Tales in Canada (Environmental Defence)
- Net Zero or Net Reckless? What is the appropriate role for negative emissions technologies in meeting Canada’s climate targets? (West Coast Environmental Law)
Alternative Budgets
- Recommendation for Budget 2022 (Green Budget Coalition)
- Alternative Federal Budget 2022 (CCPA)
News & Analysis
- Federal budget 2022: Here are the highlights (CBC News)
- With a windfall from Ottawa comes great climate expectations for the oilpatch (CBC News)
- Liberals’ 2022 budget banking on energy transition as key driver of economic growth (The Globe and Mail)
- Federal budget 2022 highlights: What you need to know about housing, defence and climate spending (The Globe and Mail)
- Carbon capture tax credit is Budget 2022’s big-ticket climate item (National Observer)
- How Canada’s new carbon capture tax credit aligns (or doesn’t) with the latest climate science (The Narwhal)