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Atmosphere & Energy Caucus

Energy Sector Sustainability Table (ESST)

• 2005 ESST Consultation Webpage

Particulate Matter and Ozone

• Fine Particles and Ozone in Canada, A Canada-wide Standards Perspective, 2003 National Summary – October 2005
• Ozone Annex: Canada-US Bilateral Air Quality Agreement – March 2004
• 2002 National Summary of Ambient PM and Ozone – September 2004
• Canada-Wide Standards for Particulate Matter and Ozone (CWS PM & Ozone) – 2003-2004

Greenhouse Gases

• Greenhouse Gas Reporting and the National Pollutant Release Inventory - 2003
• Kyoto Protocol – 2003-2004
• UK White Paper: Our energy future - Creating a low carbon economy - 2003

Mercury Emissions

• Mercury...A Global Toxin, Perspectives on Initiatives and Programs on Coal-Fired Power Plants and Mercury Emissions. Prepared for Environment Canada, by Anna Tilman - February 2004.
• Mercury...A Public Concern, including Analysis of Mercury Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants and Canada-Wide Standards. Prepared for Environment Canada, by Anna Tilman - March 2002

CCME National Air Issues Coordinating Committee (NAICC)

Federal and provincial Environment and Energy Ministers, under the auspices of the Candian Council of Ministers of the Enviornment (CCME), form the National Air Issues Steering Committee and the National Air Issues Coordinating Committee. (NAICC)

NAICC-A

The NAICC-A deals with non Climate related files and is in receipt of ENGO advise via the Strategic Advisory Committee.Linkages with Climate Related files occurs in consultation with the NAICC-B (see below). Records of NAICC-SAC procceeding and decisions are available by contacting Leela Ramachandran.

• acid rain
• hazardous air pollutants
• national emissions inventories and projections
• national framework for petroleum refinery emission reductions
• ozone-depleting substances
• smog

NAICC-B

NAICC-B deals with climate related files. ENGO Climate related work is hosted primarily through CANet, the Climate Action Network, with whom the RCEN Energy and Atmosphere caucus shares a broad membership base.

In addition, the caucus continues to promote early reductions of emissions toward implementation of the Ozone Annex of the Canada Us Bilaterial Air Quality Agreement.

Conférences des Parties (CDP) et Réunions des Parties (MOP)

• Second meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP2) to the Convention on Biological Diversity and Meeting of the Parties (MOP2) to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
  Date: May 30 to June 3, 2005
• United Nations Climate Change Conference and First Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (MOP 1)
  Date : November 28 to December 9, 2005