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Home / Design Options in a Domestic Emissions Trading System for the Treatment of Fossil Fuels Used as Feedstocks

Design Options in a Domestic Emissions Trading System for the Treatment of Fossil Fuels Used as Feedstocks

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RELEASED 1999

 		 Domestic Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: Technical Paper Series This paper is one of a series of papers on issues that must be addressed in the design of a variety of potential domestic emissions trading systems for greenhouse gases in Canada. The issue considered in this paper is the question of how to treat fossil fuels used as non-energy feedstocks in a domestic emissions trading system. The paper begins by examining the extent to which fossil fuels are used as non-energy feedstocks in Canada and the implementations of this use of fossil fuels for Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. It then goes on to examine why fossil fuels used as feedstocks pose a special challenge in the design of some potential emissions trading systems. Finally, the paper examines a range of options for addressing these issues.