Reporting greenhouse gas emissions data: Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements
This is a guide for how to calculate or determine greenhouse gas emissions. It is for facilities covered under the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) expansion.
2024 and 2025 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2024 applies to facilities covered under Phases 1 and 2 of the GHGRP expansion for reporting 2024 and 2025 greenhouse gas (GHG) information.
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2024
2022 and 2023 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2022 applies to facilities covered under Phases 1 and 2 of the GHGRP expansion for reporting 2022 and 2023 greenhouse gas (GHG) information.
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2022
2021 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2021 applies to facilities covered under Phases 1 and 2 of the GHGRP expansion for reporting 2021 greenhouse gas (GHG) information.
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2021
2020 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2020 applies to facilities covered under Phases 1 and 2 of the GHGRP expansion for reporting 2020 greenhouse gas (GHG) information.
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2020
2019 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2019 applies to facilities covered under Phases 1 and 2 of the GHGRP expansion for reporting 2019 greenhouse gas (GHG) information.
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2019
Note: The standard ASTM D7582 is acceptable for use instead of ASTM D5142 (as specified in section 6.C of the quantification requirements document). The GHGRP will incorporate this change into the next version of this document.
2018 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2018 applies to facilities covered under Phases 1 and 2 for reporting 2018 GHG information.
Phase 2 includes facilities engaged in any of the following:
- mining
- electricity and heat generation
- petroleum refineries
- the production of:
- ethanol
- ammonia
- nitric acid
- hydrogen
- pulp and paper
- base metal
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2018
2017 requirements
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2017 applies to facilities covered under Phase 1 of the GHGRP expansion for reporting 2017 greenhouse gas (GHG) information. This includes facilities involved in any of the following:
- CO2 capture, transport, and storage activities
- the production of:
- cement
- lime
- aluminium
- iron and steel
Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2017
Summary of revisions
December 2023: version 7.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2024
- Updates to ammonia (section 8), nitric acid (section 9) and hydrogen production (section 10) emissions quantification methodologies
- Inclusion of CO2 utilization (section 1)
- Updated references to protocols and performance specifications for continuous emissions monitoring systems
- Increased wastewater sampling frequency (section 11.N.7)
December 2022: version 6.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2022
- Updates to natural gas combustion (equation 2-9), industrial wastewater (section 11.G), ammonia production (section 8), hydrogen production (section 10) and nitric acid production (section 9) emissions quantification methodologies
- Anthracite emission factors updated (Table 2-8)
- Corrected Equation 5-8 (aluminum production – overvoltage coefficient method) to refer to the current efficiency as a percentage
December 2021: version 5.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2021
- Additional text added to clarify waste emissions
- Update to requirements regarding the use of O2 concentration monitors in CEM systems
- Inclusion of New Brunswick specific coal emission factors (Table 2-7)
- Updates to nitric acid production (Section 9) and industrial wastewater (Section 11.G) emissions quantification methodologies
December 2020: version 4.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2020
- Additional text added to clarify requirements related to iron and steel production, aluminium production and cement production emissions
- Updated carbon content analysis method for coal, coke, and other carbonaceous materials in iron and steel production
- Petroleum coke and still gas emission factors updated (Table 2-8 and Table 2-9; Equation 2-22 and Equation 2-23)
December 2019: version 3.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2019
- Updated several emission factors (wood waste, spent pulping liquor, propane, diesel, gasoline, ethanol, biodiesel)
- Additional text added to clarify waste and wastewater emissions definitions
- Updated coal sampling frequency
- Acceptance of specific Alberta methodologies for Alberta reporters
August 2019: version 2.2
- Corrected N2O emission factor for still gas (Table 2-9). This update was also included in the 2017 version of the file (update made to version 1.1)
May 2019: version 2.1
- Corrected biomass emission factors (Table 2-11)
December 2018: version 2.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2018
- Inclusion of fuel combustion—flaring methodologies
- Inclusion of methodologies for electricity generation, ammonia production, nitric acid production, hydrogen production, petroleum refining, pulp and paper production, and base metal production
- Updates to biomass emission factors
March 2018: version 1.1
- Corrected Equation 6—5 (Sinter emissions)
December 2017: version 1.0
- Initial publication of Canada’s Greenhouse Gas Quantification Requirements for 2017
Related links
Reporting greenhouse gas emissions data: technical guidance 2022 provides general information on methods for facilities that are not captured under Phases 1 and 2 of the expansion.
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