Graham Harris
Alberta's TIER expands, gets tougher - and finally provides cost certainty to the carbon market
A summary of the key changes announced in the TIER Amendment Regulation in Alberta.
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Graham Harris
Nov 16, 20222 min read
$50 million in funding available for transformational technologies for net zero in Alberta
Submissions to ERA's Industrial Transformation Challenge are due Jan 19 and must be supported by a high quality GHG assessment.
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Graham Harris
Jul 4, 20222 min read
The Alberta government is proposing changes to TIER. What are they?
Alberta's government has begun the process of reviewing TIER - the Technology Innovation and Emissions Reduction Regulation. This is the...
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Graham Harris
Mar 31, 20224 min read
Has the future of carbon pricing in Canada just become more certain?
Following the "polluter pays" principle, the Federal Government in Canada has required a price on carbon since 2019. With the publishing...
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Graham Harris
Feb 22, 20221 min read
Now owners of small solar PV and wind in Alberta can get paid for their carbon emissions reductions
Solar Offset allows small renewable energy system owners in AB to create and be paid for Offset Credits.
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Graham Harris
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Carrots, sticks, oil and gas: the VGR Protocol and COP26
Two very different announcements were made this week regarding emissions from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. One got lots of...
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Graham Harris
Aug 5, 20211 min read
A closing window: changes to pneumatics offset project eligibility in Alberta
Presenting a flow-chart showing changes to the eligibility of offset projects using the pneumatics Protocol in Alberta.
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Graham Harris
Jul 16, 20214 min read
Understanding Alberta's draft Vent Gas Reduction Protocol (now published for public comment)
Alberta Environment and Parks today released the Vent Gas Reduction Protocol for public comment. This is a totally re-booted version of...
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Graham Harris
Jun 18, 20213 min read
Visualizing three decades of Canada's GHG emissions
Visualization of Canada's GHG emissions from 1990-2019
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Graham Harris
Apr 30, 20214 min read
Compliance routes in Alberta's carbon markets: a look at past trends and future possibilities.
In previous blog posts, we have used animated bar charts to examine different aspects of greenhouse gas emissions in Alberta...
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Graham Harris
Feb 5, 20214 min read
There's a right way and a wrong way to set a GHG emissions reduction target.
A discussion on why your organization should select an "independent" target and not a "dependent" one.
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Graham Harris
Dec 14, 20203 min read
What does a $170/tonne CO2e carbon price mean for electricity prices across Canada?
On December 11th, the Federal Government announced some big news in the world of carbon management and policy: an increase in the price...
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Graham Harris
Oct 13, 20202 min read
Where have Alberta's emission offsets come from? (A bar chart race).
An animated visualization of Alberta's emission offsets over time, by project type.
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Graham Harris
Aug 2, 20204 min read
More ambition, please - corporate GHG emission reduction targets in Alberta's oil and gas sector.
Last month’s blog post presented a visualization of Alberta’s GHG emissions since 1990. This showed how the oil and gas sector has become...
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Graham Harris
Jun 18, 20202 min read
A Visualization of Alberta's GHG Emissions since 1990
What an animated "bar chart race" of Alberta's GHG emissions from 1990-2018 reveals.
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Graham Harris
Apr 10, 20203 min read
Viewing the world through a “Climate Lens”: Canada’s ICIP grant funding.
We are living through a time of rapid climate change. As with any system or organism exposed to a changing environment, we need to adapt...
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Graham Harris
Dec 6, 20192 min read
Changes in ISO 14064-2:2019 for GHG Reduction Projects. What's new?
For the last in our three-part series looking at the changes to the new version of ISO 14064, we’re looking at part 2 – GHG projects (you...
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Graham Harris
Nov 19, 20192 min read
What’s new in ISO 14064-1:2018? Updates to version 2 of the GHG standard for inventories.
The international standard for GHG inventories – ISO 14064-1 – was updated almost one year ago, in December 2018. With the end of the...
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Graham Harris
Oct 18, 20192 min read
When is zero not zero? Or, why you need to understand 'net zero'.
While working on a municipal GHG inventory recently, I got into an illuminating discussion with my client about the meaning of the term...
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Graham Harris
Sep 4, 20192 min read
What is the global carbon budget?
We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple...
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