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This document provides guidance for calculating, establishing, and reviewing annual allowance budgets for the WCI Partner jurisdictions. The WCI Partners believe there is value in developing a budget-setting process prior to establishing budgets.&nb...
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The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) Partners have recommended a comprehensive regional effort to reduce emissions of global warming pollution, combining a broad cap-and-trade program with complementary policies to achieve the WCI 2020 regional emissions ...
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On November 12, the WCI Cap Setting & Allowance Distribution Committee hosted a webinar on competitiveness. Ingmar Juergens (DG Enterprise and Industry, European Commission, presentation available here) and James Bradbury (World Resources I...
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The WCI Electricity Team has posted two versions of a default emission factor calculator for unspecified electricity imports on the WCI website for stakeholder review and comment: a Lite version containing only the calculator worksheet and its data ...
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In May 2009, the WCI Cap Setting & Allowance Distribution Committee released a white paper and hosted a workshop describing options to limit the use of offsets issued by the WCI, as well as offsets and allowances issued by other trading systems, to no...
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The WCI Offsets Committee has initiated an effort to evaluate existing offset protocols for agriculture, forestry, and waste management against the WCI Offset Draft Criteria. Also of interest is whether the existing protocols are aligned with t...
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On September 17, 2009, the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec hosted a workshop in Toronto, Ontario to bring together experts, governments, and sector representatives from across North America and internationally to share experiences, information, and best p...
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On September 21, the Cap Setting and Allowance Distribution (CSAD) Committee hosted a webinar on the experience of setting greenhouse gas emissions caps in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and the United Kingdom. Fol...
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Materials from the September 16 WCI Partners meeting in Toronto, Ontario, are available here and include presentations on the Offset Limit White Paper, Offset Definition and Eligibility Criteria, the Auto Agreement with U.S. EPA, ...
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The WCI Partners reviewed options for continued work on issues related to the electricity sector following their July 21, 2009 announcement concerning implementation of the first jurisdictional deliverer (FJD) approach for regulating emissions associated ...
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The WCI Partner jurisdictions have provided comments to leaders in the U.S. Senate regarding Senate action on clean energy and climate protection legislation. In the letter, the WCI shares perspectives and lessons learned from working with stak...
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(Note: This update was presented by WCI Partner jurisdictions on the August 20, 2009, call with stakeholders)
WCI Partner jurisdictions are continuing to work towards their objective of putting the WCI program in place to start on January 1, 2012. ...
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The letter accounts for WCI’s perspectives and concerns on the current draft federal offset system design. The letter focuses on areas of the offset program design that the WCI has completed, although other areas are of interest, such as the ...
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With technical assistance from Navigant
Consulting, the WCI Electricity Committee has initiated an eastern electricity
emissions leakage study for Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec. The study will
address the concern that reductions in fossil-fir...
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To All Interested Parties: Today, the Western Climate Initiative (WCI)’s Cap Setting and Allowance Distribution (CSAD) Committee released the Draft Statement of Principles on Competitiveness and the Review of Proposed Options for Addressing Indust...
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The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) Partner
jurisdictions have released a “WCI Regional Emissions Database Options White
Paper.” The Regional Emissions Database (RED) will consist of a system of
database components developed by The Climate...
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The Offsets Committee has identified a number of offset protocols potentially suitable for use in the WCI cap-and-trade program and is seeking contractor support to evaluate these proposals against WCI draft offset criteria and identify which are suitable...
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The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) Partner jurisdictions have released a white paper on Offset Definition and Eligibility Criteria.
The Offsets Committee is working toward recommending the design and operation
of an offset system as outlined in ...
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The WCI has released the final version of the first group of Essential Requirements for Mandatory Reporting (ERMR). This release includes general provisions governing all reporters; requirements for third-party verification; and greenhouse gas monitoring,...
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The Design Recommendations for the WCI Regional Cap-and-Trade Program describe the point of regulation for electricity imported into a WCI jurisdiction as the First Jurisdictional Deliverer (FJD). An FJD is defined as “the first entity that delivers… ...
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