Environment

$1.4B to implement the Plan for a Green Economy

Initiatives totalling $1B over five years for the environment, including to protect biodiversity and our water resources, and to promote sound environmental practices;

$1.4B in additional funding for the 2023-2028 Implementation Plan of the Plan for a Green Economy;

$9B over 5 years dedicated to the fight against climate change.

Details

Air, climate change and energy

$30M over three years to support businesses that develop and market clean technologies, and to launch calls for projects aimed at encouraging the adoption of clean technologies and eco-responsible practices as well as the implementation of circular economy initiatives;
$32M over three years to encourage biogas production projects and the conversion from more polluting petroleum products to natural gas.

Water

$519.7M over five years for water protection and dam safety:
- $500M to support the creation of the Blue Fund, part of which will be financed by the royalty payable for water use:
  - Of this amount, $429.9M to implement initiatives of the future Blue Fund and $70.1M to continue the Québec Water Strategy;
  - The Blue Fund will aim to protect water resources by funding water management measures in the areas of sustainable, equitable and efficient use of water resources, flood control and prevention, conservation of aquatic ecosystems, and water governance;
  - Several water management initiatives have been identified, such as acquiring and analyzing data on the state of water resources and supporting water users in the Montérégie, Estrie and Centre-du-Québec regions;
  - Other measures to be funded by the Blue Fund will be determined gradually through consultations to be undertaken by the Department of the Environment, the Fight Against Climate Change, Wildlife and Parks during 2023;
- $19.7M to support bringing municipal dams up to standard.

Residual materials

$23.2M over two years to encourage agri-environmental practices;
Modulate and increase, for the first time since its introduction in 1999, the duty on new tires to ensure long-term funding for the Quebec scrap tire management program (additional revenue of $64.6M over five years).

Soil and groundwater

$10M over two years to implement initiatives promoting the social acceptability of projects in the critical and strategic minerals sector.

Biodiversity

$443.4M over five years to implement the Plan nature 2030, in line with Quebec’s commitment in the wake of COP15 to reach the next global conservation target of 30% of the territory by 2030:
- Implementation of measures to improve public access to nature (creation of new protected and conservation areas in northern territory and acceleration of the conservation process for natural environments);
- Act against threats to biodiversity (implementation of measures to combat invasive alien species and recovery plans for threatened and vulnerable species);
- Support Indigenous leadership in biodiversity conservation (support projects for the transmission, collection or framework for sharing of Indigenous knowledge by communities);
- $16.5M over three years to support the creation of green and blue corridors by municipalities, a structured network of developed natural environments.