Annual Program Management for Fisheries and Oceans Canada

Quick Facts

Bronson assisted DFO for over 20+ years with mandated departmental reporting on energy consumption and GHG emissions under the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy and Greening Government Strategy (and previous reporting frameworks).
Bronson worked closely with DFO’s Office of Environmental Coordination to report on over 160 facilities, an on-road fleet of 1,500+ vehicles and a National Safety and Security (Coast Guard) fleet of marine vessels and helicopters.
Bronson’s annual efforts assisted DFO in reporting to Treasury Board Secretariat on its progress toward departmental GHG emissions targets for 2025 and 2050.

Project Description

Bronson provided annual program management support to DFO in Energy Data Collection, Analysis and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting, as required by the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy and Greening Government Strategy.

Business Challenge

To assist DFO to report annual departmental energy consumption and GHG emissions.
To assemble and verify raw data reported from a variety of internal departmental sources.
To complete Federal Greening Government Reporting Templates for Facilities, On-Road Vehicles and for Coast Guard’s NSS Fleet of Marine Vessels and Aircraft.
To report on departmental emissions sources, year-over-year trends, comparisons to baseline data, and progress toward departmental emissions targets.

Our Solution and Outcome

Bronson worked with several Project Authorities over the 20+ years of this service and provided critical institutional memory related to DFO’s energy and GHG reporting efforts. Bronson employed several methods of checking raw data to ensure that completed GHG Accounting and Reporting Templates accurately reflected DFO’s energy consumption and GHG emissions. Further, Bronson developed a highly concise and readable accompanying final report that clearly presented the results for each, compared to baseline and target emissions as well as an Excel tool to depict the impacts of weather on energy consumption at 59 major facilities.