Two very different announcements were made this week regarding emissions from the oil and gas sector in Alberta. One got lots of...

Presenting a flow-chart showing changes to the eligibility of offset projects using the pneumatics Protocol in Alberta.

Alberta Environment and Parks today released the Vent Gas Reduction Protocol for public comment. This is a totally re-booted version of...

Visualization of Canada's GHG emissions from 1990-2019

In previous blog posts, we have used animated bar charts to examine different aspects of greenhouse gas emissions in Alberta...

A discussion on why your organization should select an "independent" target and not a "dependent" one.

On December 11th, the Federal Government announced some big news in the world of carbon management and policy: an increase in the price...

An animated visualization of Alberta's emission offsets over time, by project type.

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...

What an animated "bar chart race" of Alberta's GHG emissions from 1990-2018 reveals.

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...

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...

The international standard for GHG inventories – ISO 14064-1 – was updated almost one year ago, in December 2018. With the end of the...

While working on a municipal GHG inventory recently, I got into an illuminating discussion with my client about the meaning of the term...

We are all familiar with the concept of a budget when it comes to our household finances or government spending. A nice, simple...

At the end of June, I had the pleasure of teaching the CSA’s ISO 14064-3 course on ‘Greenhouse Gas Validation and Verification” to a...