What we do
CAPE is a charitable organization that works with partners across Canada and internationally to amplify impact and build collective power. We support physicians in advocating for healthier ecosystems, and take action to advance health for all by engaging governments, leading campaigns, conducting research, and drawing media attention to key issues.
This work is driven by our purpose: to mobilize the credible voice of health professionals, health science, and evidence to address the ecological and climate crises, and accelerate change towards a just, equitable, and healthier present and future.
Our vision
The health of people and the planet are prioritized in society and policy in Canada.
Our mission
CAPE works to better human health by protecting the planet.
If Canada meets its climate targets, we will save an estimated 112,000 lives between 2030 and 2050 due to air quality improvements alone. We can do this together.
Guiding Principles and Values
Our Impact
We are powerful together. Since our founding in 1993, CAPE’s work has achieved substantial policy victories in collaboration with many partners in the environmental movement.
2024
Successfully advocated for greenwashing provisions in Bill C-59, requiring fossil fuel companies to remove unsubstantiated environmental claims
2024
Helped achieve the passage of Bill C-226, the National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Act, requiring Canada’s first national strategy on environmental racism and justice
2024
Collaborated with MP Charlie Angus to introduce Bill C-372, the Fossil Fuel Advertising Act, which proposes a nationwide ban on fossil fuel advertising
2023
Successfully advocated for Bill S-5, an act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), which was passed by Parliament in June 2023
2022
Filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau to investigate greenwashing by the fossil fuel industry, resulting in an investigation
2022
Launched the Fossil Fuel Ad-Ban Campaign, 'Fossil Fuel Ads Make Us Sick!' on Clean Air Day
2022
Launched the Advocacy and Mobilization Program for Healthcare Professionals (AMP) program
2021
Won a commitment to ban pesticide usage and sales in Montreal, Quebec
2021
Convinced the province of Québec to reject a new LNG project
2021
Advocated for successful passage of Bill C-12, climate accountability legislation
2020
Became a founding partner in PaRx, Canada's first national nature prescription program
2016
Won a commitment for a nation-wide coal phase-out by 2030
2015
Won a commitment to phase out coal plants in Alberta by 2030
2015
Won regulations to reduce neonics in Ontario by 80%
2014
Banned cosmetic pesticides in Manitoba
2014
Closed Ontario’s coal plants, making Ontario coal-free
2012
Convinced Quebec to withdraw support from the Asbestos industry
2011
Banned cosmetic pesticides in Newfoundland and Labrador
2009
Banned cosmetic pesticides in New Brunswick
2008
Banned cosmetic pesticides in Ontario
Annual Reports
2024–2025
2023–2024
2022–2023
2021–2022
2020–2021
