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Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting on Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Monitoring, Accounting and Reporting encompasses the institutional, legal and procedural arrangements necessary to ensure that Canada meets its United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Kyoto Protocol reporting obligations, that quality inventories are prepared, and that proper documentation and archiving occurs in order to facilitate third party review and to assess compliance with UNFCCC reporting obligations and with Canada's Kyoto Protocol target.

This site features a variety of information on GHGs, the greenhouse effect, FAQs, data tables of Canada's GHG emissions, and all the latest information and tools you need for measuring, verifying and reporting facility GHG emissions.

There are two main sources of information for GHG emissions available on this website. The first is the National Inventory Report (NIR) which contains GHG emissions data at the national, provincial and sectoral levels and is submitted to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) annually. This is the source to be used for all-inclusive national and provincial totals.

The second source is the GHG Emissions Reporting program. The GHG emissions reporting program specifically targets facilities in Canada that emit the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes or more of Greenhouse Gases (in CO₂ equivalent units) annually. It is important to note that the emissions information collected and published by this program represent only a portion of industrial emitters in Canada. The totals published by the GHG Emissions Reporting program represent a subset of the larger picture provided by the National Inventory.

What's New

October 2007: Release of the 2006 facility level GHG emissions data collected under the GHG Emission Reporting program are now available.

Environment Canada's website provides:

• A brief overview and analysis of the reported data.
• Key data tables that can be viewed or downloaded.
• A dynamic search tool to query the reported data.

May 2007: Canada's National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (1990-2005) submitted to the UNFCCC. Report Summary 1990-2005 now available. (PDF)

March 2007: Publication of Canada Gazette notice for 2007 GHG emissions. The notice details the requirement that facilities who exceed the 100kt CO₂ equivalent GHG emission threshold must report their 2007 GHG emissions on or before June 1, 2008.