Reductions Registry: Public Review Protocol

Registration Protocol for Emission Reductions Projects and the associated annual RERs

  1. Purpose
    To provide a service for entities wishing to have GHG Reduction Projects reviewed and registered in the Canadian GHG Reductions Registry .

  2. Application and Project Documents
    The applicant must complete a standardized application form and submit supporting documents describing the project and its validated emission reductions calculation methodology.

  3. Internal Review Process
    Our staff will review the project documents to ensure that the following principles are addressed:

    1. Relevance: Define boundaries that appropriately reflect the greenhouse gas emissions and reductions of the project and the decision-making needs of users.

    2. Completeness: Account for all greenhouse gas emission sources and activities within the project boundaries. Any specific sources excluded should be identified and justified.

    3. Consistency: Allow meaningful comparison of emissions performance over time. Any changes to the basis of reporting should be clearly stated to facilitate continued valid comparison.

    4. Accuracy: Exercise due diligence to ensure that greenhouse gas calculations have the precision needed for their intended use, and provide reasonable assurance of the integrity of the reported greenhouse gas information.

    5. Conservativeness: Conservative assumptions and methodologies should be applied to all estimates.

    6. Transparency: Address all relevant issues in a factual and coherent manner, based on a clear audit trail. Important assumptions should be disclosed and appropriate references made to the calculation methodologies used.

    7. Exclusivity: Emissions reductions must be exclusive to the Canadian GHG Reductions Registry .

  4. Notice of Completeness
    Written notice will be provided to the applicant if there are any deficiencies. If there are no deficiencies, we will provide notice of intent to register the project by posting the project information in the Canadian GHG Reductions Registry for public comment.

  5. Grace Period
    We will manage the public review process facilitating the resolution of identified issued. Thirty days after the project information has been posted and having received no legitimate unresolved challenge to the posted documentation, we will issue a registration number for the project and begin tracking the ownership of its registered emission reductions (RERs).

  6. Annual Posting of Project RERs
    Annually, upon receiving an application and an acceptable proponent-funded GHG emissions reduction verification report, a set of RERs of identified vintage will be registered without the requirement of a grace period.

  7. Fees for Public Review and RER Transactions
    The GHG Registries fee to facilitate the public review of these documents is based on a per hour rate to a maximum of $1,000 (plus GST). We do not guarantee that this process will result in the registration of a project.