cover image: Climate Action Network Canada recommendations for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions : CAN Canada recommendations for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions

Premium

20.500.12592/6mpk6w

Climate Action Network Canada recommendations for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions : CAN Canada recommendations for mandatory reporting of greenhouse gas emissions

23 Oct 2003

This ignores the critical issue of responsibility for pollution: the public has a right to know the level of responsibility of individual facilities and corporate entities that are significant contributors to climate change (regardless of whether the emissions sources in question are subject to regulated limits). [...] The most recent Pembina assessment10 shows that, after six years of the VCR’s existence, the GHG emissions data reported to it remains • incomplete — of 494 industrial entities registered with the VCR, only 102, representing less than 55% of Canada’s industrial GHG emissions, reported their emissions for the year 2000 to the VCR within 15 months of the end of that year; • inconsistent — the assess [...] There are four further categories of emissions that could reasonably be covered by the system: • in sectors covered by the covenants and emissions trading system, emissions excluded from the system because of measurement difficulties (notably, fugitive emissions); • in sectors covered by the covenants and emissions trading system, emissions from small facilities that may be exempted from the syste [...] All four of these further categories of emissions should be subject to mandatory, facility-level reporting of GHG emissions in light of four objectives/needs established in section 2: improving the detail and accuracy of the national GHG emissions inventory; satisfying the public’s right to know; enhancing public education on climate change; and encouraging emitters to adopt strategies for reducin [...] Since the objectives/needs of mandatory reporting extend well beyond the needs of the covenants and emissions trading system (see above), and for reasons of comparability, CAN Canada takes the position that the facility-level reporting threshold applied to all facilities subject to mandatory reporting of GHG emissions should be whichever is the lower of 20 kt CO2e and the facility- level measureme
health environment climate change government politics air pollution greenhouse gas global warming ghgs greenhouse gas emissions greenhouse gases climate change mitigation canada chemicals confidentiality environmental monitoring pollutants environmental pollution emissions trading kyoto protocol emissions ghg emissions ghg right to know climate action the kyoto protocol alberta environment and sustainable resource development

Authors

Bramley, Matthew J

Pages
16
Published in
Canada

Related Topics

All