Carbon pollution pricing: options for a Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System
Table of contents
- Purpose
- Introduction
- Context and rationale for a Federal GHG Offset System
- Federal Greenhouse Gas Offset System design considerations
- Alignment with the Pan-Canadian Greenhouse Gas Offsets Framework
- Canada-wide application
- Program administration
- Collaboration with provincial and territorial governments
- Proposed key elements of the Federal GHG Offset System
- Proposed criteria for offset project eligibility
- Federal Offset Protocol development
- Protocol considerations
- Project registration
- Monitoring and reporting
- Third party verification and validation
- Issuance of Offset Credits
- Federal Offset Credits issued in error or no longer valid
- Emissions trading and use considerations
- Tracking system
- Other considerations
- Timelines and next steps
- Glossary
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