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The Reporting Committee is developing a greenhouse gas emissions reporting system that will support the WCI cap-and-trade program by ensuring that WCI jurisdictions receive necessary and accurate emissions data in a timely manner. 

Elements of the reporting system will need to include jurisdictional reporting rules, reporting tools, and a regional emissions database. Jurisdictional reporting rules will need to include, at a minimum, a common set of functionally equivalent requirements sufficient to ensure that "a metric ton is a metric ton" across the WCI Partner jurisdictions.

The final version of the first group of the Essential Requirements for Mandatory Reporting were released on July 15, 2009.  


This release includes general provisions governing all reporters; requirements for third-party verification; and greenhouse gas monitoring, reporting, and recordkeeping for the following source categories:

  • General Stationary Combustion
  • Refinery Fuel Gas Combustion
  • Electricity Generation
  • Electricity Imports
  • Primary Aluminum Manufacturing
  • Cement Manufacturing
  • Coal Storage
  • Hydrogen Production
  • Iron and Steel Manufacturing
  • Lime Manufacturing
  • Petroleum Refining
  • Pulp and Paper Manufacturing
  • Soda Ash Production
  • Petrochemical Production
  • Adipic Acid Manufacturing


It is anticipated that WCI jurisdictions will have rules implementing these essential requirements in place for the 2010 reporting year or as soon thereafter as possible.

There are five tasks and associated deliverables for the Reporting Committee in 2009:

  • Task 1: Provide ongoing guidance to WCI Partner jurisdictions as they undertake stakeholder processes in the course of adopting reporting rules in conformance with the essential requirements for reporting.
  • Task 2: Work with The Climate Registry (TCR) to develop the regional emissions reporting database.
  • Tasks 3–4: Augment the essential requirements for reporting by developing reporting requirements (i.e., applicability, quantification and monitoring methods, and report content requirements) for additional source categories that, due to the need to conduct detail analyses of points of regulation (PORs), a lack of adequate quantification or monitoring methods, and other factors, were not included in the initial essential requirements for reporting. Determine criteria for verifier accreditation and conflict of interest determination.
  • Task 5: Provide WCI comments on the proposed U.S. EPA GHG reporting rule and possibly the anticipated Environment Canada GHG reporting rule.

 

Contact information can be found on the Committee Contacts page.

For Reporting Committee documents, please refer to the Reporting Committee Document Library.