• What is Climate Change?
  
  
• The science of Climate Change and how it might affect us.
  • What the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says and what are the alternate theories.
  • Greenhouse gases and their Global Warming Potential.
  • A look at the sources of GHG emissions: World-wide, Provincial, Sectoral.
    
    
• A brief history of the International Climate Change process.
  • Rio Earth Summit, UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol, and COP process.
    
    
• The Kyoto Protocol.
  • Who does the agreement apply to, how and when?
  • What has been agreed to and what is yet to be defined?
    
    
• The Kyoto flexibility mechanisms (Emissions Trading).
  • Domestic (DET) and International (IET)
  • Joint Implementation (JI)
  • Clean Development Mechanisms (CDM)
    
    
• The current status of International Climate Change negotiations.
  • What countries have ratified and what level of support is needed to put Kyoto into force?
  • COP-8 negotiations an update. (October 23 - November 1, 2002)
  • Alternative plans to mitigate Climate Change including the US plan.
    
    
• What is the Canadian commitment under the Kyoto Protocol?
  • The Canadian Kyoto gap.
  • What are the implications and risks to Canadians? Sharing the emissions reduction burden.
  • How can we reduce emissions? Are there opportunities? Project examples.
  • A look at the Federal Options and the Alberta Plan
  • A summary of the current positions of the other provinces.
    
    
• Economic impacts of Climate Change mitigation in Canada
  • Macro - the longer term implications, which sectors could gain, which could lose
  • Micro - the possible effects on companies, shareholders, consumers and communities
    
    
• Emissions monitoring, reporting and baseline creation
  • Monitoring and reporting corporate emissions - direct and indirect emissions
  • Baseline Protection Initiative
  • Voluntary Challenge & Registry Inc.
    
    
• Emissions Trading
  • Cap and trade verses baseline and credit models
  • Emissions rights/permits allocations
  • Emissions reduction credit creation - project examples (direct and indirect reductions)
  • Emissions reduction verification and certification.
  • Forward pricing scenarios for emissions reductions/permits.
    
    
• Assessing Risk to your firm.
  • A step wise approach to assessing the affect on you, your suppliers and your customers.
  • Accounting treatment of emissions liability or permit/credit inventories.
  • Can you create a competitive advantage?
    
    
• Who are the influential parties in the Climate Change debate? International, federal, provincial, community, NGO, and corporations
  
  
• Commercial resources - Emissions brokers, verifiers, accounting firms, law firms, NGOs, and engineering/policy/financial consultants.
  
  
• Other sources of information, data including web-links.
  
  

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