Our Environment

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To protect and enhance the environmental quality in the NWT.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources works to protect and enhance environmental quality in the Northwest Territories through a number of programs, services and activities including: biodiversity; land conservation, ecosystem classification; water strategy; management of hazardous substances; waste reduction and recovery (recycling); climate change; air quality; energy awareness; energy alternatives; energy efficiency; and, environment assessment and monitoring.

Air Quality 

Biodiversity

Climate Change

Ecosystem Classification

Environmental Assessment and Monitoring

Energy Conservation and Alternative Energy Technologies

ENR/ITI Library

Hazardous Waste 

Legislation

NWT Protected Areas Strategy

NWT Natural Resource Management and Advisory Boards

NWT State of the Environment Report

Public Education

Publications

Rare Plants

Recycling

Regulatory Improvement

Spills

Traditional Knowledge

Water

West Kitikmeot Slave Study (WKSS)