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GHG emissions reporting system


Many countries, including Canada, are required to prepare and submit a national inventory of human-generated sources and sinks of greenhouse gases (GHG) every year. This system was set up to meet the reporting obligations of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and as a key tool to meet Kyoto Protocol targets and to fight climate change.

In Canada, Environment Canada is responsible for compiling and reporting the data. These inventory reports must meet international reporting guidelines and quality standards and are reviewed by a UN expert review team.

There are two main sources of information for GHG emissions available:

  • National Inventory Report (NIR) – These are GHG emissions data at the national, provincial, and sector levels. These are the data you will find in this section of climatechangeconnection.org.

New data usually comes out each June or July but it’s data to two years previously. We currently have data from 1990 to 2005.

  • GHG Emissions Reporting program – Large Final Emitter (LFE) facilities generate the equivalent of 100,000 tonnes or more of GHG (in CO2 equivalent units) annually. The totals published by this program represent a subset of the larger picture provided by the National Inventory.

In 2006, there were eight Large Final Emitter (LFE) facilities in Manitoba. They generate about 2.4 million of our total 20.3 million tonnes* of GHG emissions (in CO2 equivalents).

Click here to to see data on Manitoba's Large Final Emitters (LFE).


* Total emissions data is for 2005