Environment committee  A lot of staff have a real big interest, of course, in environmental issues. What we've found is that they're really committed and really interested, so we're tapping into that network, that grassroots network of staff who are really keen on greening, and asking how we enable them to do that, and not with central command and control.

Environment committee  Okay.

Environment committee  Including the SDG commitments.

Environment committee  Yes. Across Treasury Board, there are many instruments. Treasury Board is the management board for the Government of Canada. It's the cabinet committee that looks at all those issues such as expenditure analysis and the expenditure authority that departments look for. Treasury Board is the employer for the Government of Canada.

Environment committee  Yes, it uses those instruments across the board in different areas to ensure departments are delivering on their mandates and—

Environment committee  —their commitments.

Environment committee  Treasury Board also has an annual departmental sustainable development strategy. In there, it reports against all of the targets. I don't know that it's for me to say if it's a good job or not. I think it's probably more for this committee and the commissioner. I'll leave you to make that judgment.

Environment committee  As we are at Treasury Board, we of course want to focus on greening Treasury Board's operations as well. We've created a TBS-Finance green network—we're in the same building—within Treasury Board, so we are looking at different ways in which we can green our own operations. Really, Treasury Board is just leasing two buildings that are owned by Public Works.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  The 19% represents 15 departments, the 15 major departments. With the proposed amendments, we would expand that to cover more departments.

Environment committee  There's a lot more work to do, but we do know what the other major departments are. They've been working in various areas, of course, but there's still work to do to get to the 40, for sure, yes.

Environment committee  In terms of the heritage and greening, for example, those heritage buildings pose a particular challenge, of course, because their heritage aspect is really important, and of course we'd want to preserve that as much as we can. I think the heritage of the Parliament Buildings and of a lot of the things the government owns is critical, and I don't think we want to take anything away from that.

Environment committee  Thank you. I will begin by providing a few concrete examples. First, our centre is responsible for the inventory of greenhouse gases emitted by government operations. We address the requests to the departments and develop the definitions, protocols, methodology and so on, in line with all international standards.

Environment committee  There have to be more analyses, and departmental expertise on the issue has to be compiled. In this way, we can adopt best practices and have a more solid inventory.

Environment committee  We've been resourced and set up by Treasury Board, so we are well set up, I think, to do what we are doing right now.