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Public sector Climate Change Accountability Reports

Last updated on June 25, 2026

The public sector Climate Change Accountability Reports (CCARs) are annual reports that all provincial public sector organizations (PSOs) must publish. PSOs prepare these reports in accordance with the Climate Change Accountability Act to show they are carbon neutral.

CCAR reporting provides a record of each PSO’s:

  • Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions
  • Offset purchases
  • Reduction plans and actions. 

The CCARs share ideas that help organizations use less energy and produce fewer carbon emissions.

View the PSO CCARs and annual summary reports.

2025 highlights

PSOs reported 789,050 tonnes of total GHG emissions from their operations. This total is made up of:

  • 770,756 tonnes of GHG emissions from energy use in buildings and fleet vehicles, as well as business travel and paper consumption. This  is an eight percent reduction from the baseline.
  • 18,294 tonnes of fugitive emissions from unintentional leaks of gases such as hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants from equipment. At the outset of the program, most equipment used Ozone Depleting Substances (ODSs). ODSs are not in scope.

Some PSOs are transitioning from fossil fuels to biogenic sources to help address their carbon footprint:

  • 87,758 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions came from biogenic sources, which include renewable material such as wood waste and renewable natural gas
  • The balance, 701,292 tonnes of non-biogenic GHG emissions, represents a 15 percent reduction from the baseline

Over the past 16 years, public sector emissions from energy  consumption in buildings and fleet vehicles (not including CO2 emissions from biogenic sources1) decreased by 16 percent, broken down as:

  • An 18 percent drop in building emissions
  • A seven percent reduction in fleet emissions, largely attributed to BC Transit beginning to transition to renewable natural gas

B.C. public sector emissions

The table summarizes the emissions reported by PSOs over the 2025 calendar year and compares them with the 2010 baseline. Emissions are expressed in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e).

Public sector emissions (tCO2e)
  2010 emissions
(baseline)		 2025 emissions Percent reduction
Total emissions 834,069 789,050 5%
Less: Bio-CO2 emissions1 5,051 87,758 n/a
Non-bio-CO2 emissions2 829,018 701,292 15%
Less: Offset exempt emissions3 78,842 70,326 11%
Net offsettable emissions 750,176 630,966 16%

1 Bio-CO2 refers to the carbon dioxide part of the emissions from the combustion of biogenic fuels. Examples include wood waste used for heating and renewable vehicle fuels. These emissions are not offset

2 Non-bio-CO2 emissions exclude all Bio-CO2

3 Under the Carbon Neutral Government Regulation, emissions from school and transit buses must be reported. However, these emissions are exempt from offset requirements

Additional notes:

  • The Province retired a total of 627,221 offsets for the 2025 Carbon Neutral Government commitment. This includes 630,966 offsets required to address 2025 emissions. It also includes an adjustment of –3,745 offsets to reflect changes to emissions reported in previous years
  • Due to rounding, numbers presented above may not add up to precisely to the totals reported