Transcript Brand Launch - Canadian Bar Association

Comments on Canada’s Large Final Emitters (LFE)
and Domestic Offsets Climate Change Plans
CBA National Environmental, Energy and Resources
Law Section/Department of Justice Annual Meeting
October 22, 2004
Ottawa, Ontario
GRAY E. TAYLOR
[email protected]
1 First Canadian Place, 44th Floor
Toronto, ON M5X 1B1
Ph: 416 863 5533 Fax: 416 863 0871
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
1.
Issues with LFE System
2.
CEPA Notice on Reporting of GHGs
3.
IETA Canada Working Group on the Carbon Market
Agreement with Natural Resources Canada October
23, 2003
4.
Domestic Offsets Issues
5.
International Trading Issues
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ISSUES WITH LFE SYSTEM
1.
50 % of Canada’s total GHG emissions but less than 25% of
reductions
2.
“business as usual” expectation of GHG emissions may be too
low, based on historic projections
3.
a) $15 per tonne price cap may lead to a need to prevent
international trades in AAUs or in the special $15 units
b) $15 per tonne subject to “prudent management of emissions”?
4.
complexity  recent consultation on cogeneration
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ISSUES WITH LFE SYSTEM
(Cont’d)
5.
International participation 
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ERUPT and CERUPT approach not likely
government participation in private funds?
who is running this show?
6.
US/Canada economies converging while Kyoto diverges - efforts
to maintain competitiveness
7.
Long term emission targets for projects
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8.
long term emission targets for projects
how to cover emission reduction deficit in 2008-2012 period?
R&D incentives interacting with compliance mechanisms
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covenants appropriate?
how to cover emission reduction deficit in 2008-2012 period?
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CEPA Notice re Reporting GHGs
• Effective March 13, 2004 to March 13, 2007
• covers GHGs in Kyoto Protocol
• CO2
• methane (CH4)
• nitrous oxide (N2O)
• sulphur hexafluoride
• HFCs
• CFCs
• requires operators of facilities to file GHG data
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CEPA Notice re Reporting GHGs
(Cont’d)
• facility threshold is greater than 100 thousand tonnes of CO2
equivalent in 2004 (CO2e uses Global Warming Potentials from
IPCC)
• threshold does not include CO2 from biomass combustion but must
report if facility exceeds threshold
• reporting facilities encouraged (authorized?) to used UNFCCC
national inventory methodologies
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CEPA Notice re Reporting GHGs
(Cont’d)
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reports to include
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company name (individuals?)
“parent” companies (not defined), their ownership percentage
(why?) and Dun and Bradstreet number (why?)
direct emissions of CO2, methane and N2O by source category
(Stationary Fuel Combustion, Industrial Process, Fugitive, Other
Direct emissions of SFs, HFCs and FCs
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CEPA Notice re Reporting GHGs
(Cont’d)
• how quantities of emissions determined (monitoring, mass
balance, emission factors or engineering estimates)
• facility definition means all on one site or on contiguous or
adjacent sites owned or operated by a single person and
functioning as a single integrated site
• operator to file is as of December 31 for whole year or, if
operations are terminated, the last operator for the portion of
the year in which operations took place
• opportunities for gamesmanship!!
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INTERNATIONAL EMISSIONS TRADING ASSOCIATION (IETA)
CANADIAN WORKING GROUP ON THE CARBON MARKET
AGREEMENT WITH NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA (NRCAN)
OCTOBER 23, 2003
1.
Sustainability
 sustainable development through emission reductions with
environmental integrity, economic efficiency and social equity
efficient and transparent market
2.
Linking
 to minimize costs, link on equivalency basis to foreign
emission trading systems
3.
International Consistency
 consistent with Kyoto Protocol, including all 6 GHGs
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CANADIAN IETA WORKING GROUP AGREEMENT
WITH NRCAN
(Cont’d)
4.
Certainty
 predictable and certain to facilitate planning but flexible to
accommodate international change
5.
Instruments
 all units tradable, including offset units tradable for Kyoto units,
and no limit on use of Kyoto units
6.
Transparency
prices and volumes transparent, subject to normal commercial
confidentiality
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CANADIAN IETA WORKING GROUP AGREEMENT
WITH NRCAN
(Cont’d)
7.
Liquidity  need adequate supply of tradable units
8.
Low Transaction Costs to facilitate trading
9.
Single Market  throughout Canada
10.
Banking
throughout first Kyoto commitment period and accommodate
Kyoto changes if made
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CANADIAN IETA WORKING GROUP AGREEMENT
WITH NRCAN
(Cont’d)
11.
Private Sector/Government
 private sector
1)
2)
develop trading infrastructure (exchange, derivatives,
dealers, brokers, etc.)
services (verification, trading, financing, etc.)
 federal government
1)
2)
assures overall performance
provides framework (legislation to create instruments and
registry)
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DOMESTIC OFFSETS ISSUES
AND INTERNATIONAL TRADING
1.
Discuss if there is time.
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Gray E. Taylor
[email protected]
1 First Canadian Place, 44th Floor
Toronto ON M5X 1B1
Ph: 416 863 5533 Fax: 416 863 0871
www.dwpv.com