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The Western Climate Initiative Reporting Committee on Oil and Gas has developed draft recommendations for quantifying certain emissions in the upstream oil and gas sector. These recommendations will serve as the basis for the WCI’s comments to U.S...
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The WCI Electricity Team invites stakeholder comment on three documents that were presented at the January 21 Electricity Industry Collaborative. Click here to access and provide comment on the Draft Open Access Technologies Inc. (OATI) analysi...
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On November 24, 2009 California released a preliminary draft regulation (PDR) that conveys, at a conceptual level, how a broad-based multi-sector cap-and-trade program will work with complementary measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to meet the 20...
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On December 15, 2009, Premier Greg Selinger committed the provincial government to moving forward with legislation enabling the creation of a cap-and-trade system to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in Manitoba. He said the system will be subject to ...
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On December 29, 2009 Line Beauchamp, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks, announced that Québec's regulation to adopt California greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks will come into force in mid-January, 2010,...
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Several WCI Partner jurisdictions are participating on a team convened by the U.S. EPA to develop data exchange mechanisms between facilities, the EPA, and the states. The team includes Canadian observers and is intended to help harmonize the implem...
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Materials from the January 20 Partner meeting and the January 21 Electricity Collaborative in Phoenix, Arizona, are available. The first half of the Partners meeting focused on the 2010 work plan for the WCI and the several technical and policy prod...
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Voluntary purchases of renewable energy products have played an important role in expanding the renewable energy market in many WCI jurisdictions. The Electricity Team has examined how the voluntary renewable energy (VRE) market may be affected by t...
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WCI Partner jurisdictions are currently in the process of
adopting rules to implement the WCI’s final Essential Requirements for
Mandatory Reporting (ERs), which were issued on July 16, 2009. On September 22,
2009, U.S. EPA adopted its final ...
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State and Provincial representatives of the three regional
GHG initiatives met for the second time on November 9 in Washington, D.C. to
continue sharing information on the status of their initiatives. Representatives of the Western...
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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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