Provincial differences in organizations’ environmental practices

Analysis of 18 environmental practices of organizations and businesses in the arts, heritage, and entertainment

This is my third and final post in a series examining national and provincial data on environmental practices in the arts, heritage, and entertainment in 2024.

Today, I analyze provincial data on organizations’ environmental practices (except their plans for net zero emissions, which I examined last week) as well as organizations’ plans to implement new practices over the next year. I highlighted the national data in a post three weeks ago.

Details about the data source and its questions are provided at the end of this post.

Unfortunately, the data quality regarding environmental practices is not particularly good for many provinces in 2024. In fact, much of the provincial data for the arts, heritage, and entertainment is described by Statistics Canada as “use with caution”. Because of this, I have opted to calculate two-year averages for key indicators, using the data from 2024 and 2023. This will reduce the number of wild swings in specific data points between 2023 and 2024, swings that were probably due simply to the relatively poor data quality in 2024.

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Environmental practices in the arts, heritage, and entertainment in each province

Current practices

Three-quarters of arts, heritage, and entertainment organizations and businesses in Canada engage in some type of environmental practice or policy (75%). The following graph shows similarities and differences in the proportion of organizations engaging in some type of environmental practice or policy between the provinces.