Victoria indicatorsGreenhouse gas emissions, Capital Region
−10.7% vs 2007
Pace calculated here: 34.2% above a straight line to the target. Targets and comparisons
Down 3.7 points since Inventory year 2022.
Source: Capital Regional District. We read it on Nov 12, 2026.
Over time
2024 Vs 2007, by year
- −10.7% vs 2007
M municipal election: Oct 15, 2022P provincial election: Oct 19, 2024
Targets and comparisons
Adopted target
Behind target (calculated here). Calculated here: a straight line from the 2007 level to a 61% cut in 2038 gives a cut of about 33.5% by 2024. The 2024 inventory shows a 11% cut, so emissions were 34.2% above that line. Within 5% of the line reads On target. The City does not publish a year-by-year path; this line is a reading of its target, not a target we set.
Target: -61 % change from 2007 by 2038, set by the Capital Regional District Board. Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024).
Adopted target: the CRD’s Regional Growth Strategy aims to cut community greenhouse gas emissions by 33% from 2007 by 2020 and by 61% by 2038. The 2025 indicators report says the current trend suggests the region will not meet the 2038 target. No chart is drawn, because only two inventory years are read here.
Source: Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024), Capital Regional District, 2025, page 29. Area: Capital Region. Updated: Yearly. Licence: Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024 | −10.7% |
| 2022 | −7.0% |
Who decides
Capital Regional District Board. Must include targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in its regional growth strategy. Local Government Act, s. 429 (2) (d)
Show the 2 other bodies and the laws
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| Capital Regional District Board | Must include targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions in its regional growth strategy. | Local Government Act, s. 429 (2) (d) |
| Province of B.C. | Sets B.C.’s emission targets in law. | Climate Change Accountability Act, s. 2 |
| Government of Canada and Parliament | Sets Canada’s national emission targets. | Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act, s. 6 and 7 |
No government decides this directly. Households and businesses also decide how they heat buildings and travel.
Province: last general election October 19, 2024; next set for October 21, 2028 unless called earlier (Constitution Act, s. 23). Canada: last general election April 28, 2025; next set for October 15, 2029 unless called earlier (Canada Elections Act, s. 56.1).
Each row says what a body decides and links to the law, order or bylaw that gives it that role. It does not say who caused a change: markets, households and other governments also move these numbers. Who decides what, for every measure · How we choose
What this number does not show
- The CRD’s community-wide inventory (BASIC+ protocol): buildings, transportation, waste, industry, agriculture and land use, for the whole region. The City of Victoria’s own inventory is on its own page.
One more limit
- The CRD describes the change from 2022 to 2024 as a 1% decrease, while the two printed totals (rounded to two decimals, 1.86 and 1.79 million tonnes) differ by -3.8%. The inventory may have been revised; both readings are shown.
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In plain words
Community-wide greenhouse gas emissions for the whole Capital Region, from the CRD’s inventory, as the change from 2007, next to the regional target.
How we decide “Behind target”
Calculated here: a straight line from the 2007 level to a 61% cut in 2038 gives a cut of about 33.5% by 2024. The 2024 inventory shows a 11% cut, so emissions were 34.2% above that line. Within 5% of the line reads On target. The City does not publish a year-by-year path; this line is a reading of its target, not a target we set.
About 1.79 million tonnes in 2024, 10.7% below 2007 (2025 edition report), against about 1.86 million tonnes in 2022, 7% below 2007 (previous report). The CRD describes the change from 2022 as a 1% decrease. The Regional Growth Strategy target is 61% below 2007 by 2038.
Target: Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition, report for 2024).
Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. The regional growth strategy sets a target for these emissions. The City’s own inventory is on the City page.
- The CRD’s community-wide inventory (BASIC+ protocol): buildings, transportation, waste, industry, agriculture and land use, for the whole region. The City of Victoria’s own inventory is on its own page.
- The CRD describes the change from 2022 to 2024 as a 1% decrease, while the two printed totals (rounded to two decimals, 1.86 and 1.79 million tonnes) differ by -3.8%. The inventory may have been revised; both readings are shown.
- Inventories are prepared every two years and are revised as methods improve.
Which places
Area: Capital Region
The Capital Regional District: 13 municipalities and 3 electoral areas, including the Southern Gulf Islands and Salt Spring Island.
Included
- The 13 municipalities: Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Esquimalt, View Royal, Langford, Colwood, Highlands, Metchosin, Sooke, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Sidney
- The 3 electoral areas: Juan de Fuca (including East Sooke, Jordan River and Port Renfrew), Salt Spring Island, and the Southern Gulf Islands (Galiano, Mayne, Pender and Saturna)
- First Nations reserve lands within the region
Not included
- Communities north of the Malahat, such as the Cowichan Valley, Duncan and Nanaimo
Official definition
- Capital Regional District: About the CRD
- Statistics Canada: Capital census division (5917), 2021 list of areas
How the agency describes it: Capital Regional District (community-wide inventory).
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Every two years (CRD community greenhouse gas inventory); latest release Feb 18, 2026
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2026, 10:30 PM B.C. time
Source: Capital Regional District, Regional Growth Strategy Indicators Report (2025 edition). Public document, used with attribution; not endorsed by the publisher.
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