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A N N U a L R E P Ort20 00 2 0 0 0 r t o p e R l a u n n A vcr inc. CANADA'S CLIMATE CHANGE voluntary challenge & registry inc. To provide through leadership, the Mission means for promoting, assessing, and recognizing the effectiveness of the voluntary approach in addressing climate change. Mandates • To recruit broad participation from all sectors of the Canadian economy with the support of the Council of Champions and in conjunction with sector organizations. • To record and document participation, action plans, best practices and achievements. • To analyze actions and achievements, and consider their potential for further progress and to provide the related support to participants as their involvement deepens. • To recognize, publicize and promote participants making significant progress towards Canada’s reduction objectives with the support of the Technical Advisory Committee. • To contribute to the development and implementation of standards and procedures for measuring the impact of reduction activities. • To provide a national registry for initiatives which lead to early voluntary action to reduce GHG emissions. • To prepare progress and annual reports, and identify issues for consideration in the evolution of VCR Inc. t 200 or 0 p e R l a u n 1 n A Table of Contents Retrospective 2000 . .6 1.0 Challenge Registry . 9 1.1 Linkages and Parterships . 11 1.2 Sector Profiles . .13 1.2.1 Context . .13 1.2.2 Energy . .16 1.2.3 Manufacturing and Metal Mining . .24 1.2.4 Commercial Transportation . 34 1.2.5 Institutional and Commercial . .36 1.2.6 Service and Retail Industry . 40 1.2.7 Households . 40 2.0 Reduction Registry . .43 2.1 Baseline Protection . .43 2.2 Emissions Trading . .43 2.3 Champions in Actions (CIA) . .44 3.0 Credit Registry . .48 4.0 Leadership Awards . .50 5.0 Communications . .54 5.1 VCR Inc. Website . .54 5.2 Publications . .54 5.3 Media Relations . .56 5.4 Annual Survey . .56 6.0 Management and Organization . 62 6.1 Strategic Planning . .62 6.2 Structure . .62 u nn al R A e p o r t 2 2 0 0 0 Appendices Board of Directors (Year 2000) . .64 Council of Champions . .64 Members of VCR Inc.’s Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) . 66 List of Organizations with Registered Action Plans . .68 2000 Funding Partners . .76 List of Acronyms . .77 List of Tables: Table One: Linkages and Partnerships . .13 Table Two: National 1998 GHG Emissions Inventory Breakdown . .15 Table Three:ABC Statistics . .41 Table Four: Satisfaction Quotient of Executive Contacts . .59 Table Five: Satisfaction Quotient of Technical Contacts . .60 List of Charts: Chart 1-1: Challenge Registry Growth . .10 Chart 1-2: Cumulative Action Plans and Related First Progress Reports 1997-2000 . .10 Chart 1-3: Percentage of Sector GHG Emissions Represented at VCR Inc. .11 Chart 1-4: Growth in Linkages and Partnerships – VCR Inc. Registry . .13 Chart 1-5: GHG Emission Trends . .14 Chart 1-6: Canada’s GHG Emissions Inventory, 1998 . .14 Chart 1-7: Sources of GHG Emissions . .16 Chart 1-8: Electric Utility Sector GHG Emissions . .17 Chart 1-9: Upstream Oil and Gas Industry Production Energy Intensity . .19 Chart 1-10: Intensity Index, Trends for CPPI Member Refineries . .20 Chart 1-11: Energy Pipeline GHG Emissions . .21 Chart 1-12: GHG Emissions From Natural Gas . .22 Chart 1-13: Canadian Coal Industry GHG Emission Trends . .23 Chart 1-14: GHG Emissions Chemical Manufacturing . .25 Chart 1-15: GHG Emissions From Metal Mining . .27 Chart 1-16: GHG Emissions Mineral Processing . .27 Chart 1-17: 1998 Aluminium Emissions . .29 Chart 1-18: Pulp and Paper Industry Fossil Fuel Emissions . .30 Chart 1-19: Steel Industry Energy Intensity Index (1990-2010) . .31 Chart 1-20: Textiles Energy Efficiency . .32 Chart 1-21: Canadian Auto Manufacturing Emission Trends . .33 Chart 1-22: Commercial Transportation Energy Use and Activity Rates . .34 Chart 1-23: Railway Transportation CO2 Emission Trends . 34 Chart 1-24: Commercial and Institutional Sector, Energy use and Floor Space Trends . .36 Chart 5-1: Monthly Hits and Page Views . .54 t 200 or 0 p Chart 6-1: VCR Inc. Organizational Structure . .63 e R l a u n 3 n A Readers’ Comments and Requests Any comments or questions regarding the content of this report and/or requests for copies of this or other reports, contact the office of Canada’s Climate Change Voluntary Challenge and Registry Inc. at 170 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 600 Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5V5 Telephone: (613) 565-5151 Fax: (613) 565-5743 E-mail: [email protected] Web site: www.vcr-mvr.ca Other publications available from VCR Inc. include the following: • VCR Inc. Annual Report 1998 • VCR Inc. Annual Report 1999 • VCR Inc. Annual Report 2000 • VCR Inc. Registration Guide 1999 • Champion News Toutes publications du bureau de MVR Inc. sont disponibles en français. u nn al R A e p o r t 2 4 0 0 0 Global climate change is a global issue that compels us to seek global solutions VCR Inc. has successfully completed its first Retrospective three years of operation as a standalone entity. Our objectives, as stated in our 1998-2000 Strategic Plan have been met and surpassed. 2000 We are indeed fortunate to have a very strong and engaged Board of Directors made up of industry and government leaders who play an active role in the development and monitoring of our annual and long-term strategies and performance. We would like to take this opportunity to thank two members of the Board specifically, Ron Munkley, our Past Chairman and Tayce Wakefield, the Chair of our Audit Committee, for their stalwart service since our inception. Both have chosen this year to pass the torch to others to carry into the future. We are pleased to report, based on our annual survey of a broad range of stakeholders, that the high satisfaction level of our executive and technical contacts gained a further 16% and 12% respectively over the results of our original 1998 Survey. The observations and opinions shared with us in this Annual Survey continue to be valuable in choosing VCR Inc. activities that best support your initiatives. Two significant activities that were undertaken in 2000 over and above those identified in our original Strategic Plan are worth noting. We have implemented the registry element of the Baseline Protection initiative, announced by the joint Federal/Provincial Ministers of Energy and Environment as an element of the First Business Plan within the new National Implementation Strategy for Climate Change. In addition, we introduced a new initiative called Champions in Action (CIA) which provides an opportunity for leading Canadian organizations to make formal agreements with VCR Inc. to reduce their net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions over time in a planned and rigorous way, and to have their progress toward that goal validated and publicly recorded. This initiative is also providing a forum for testing the design and implementation of enhanced voluntary approaches to GHG emission reductions. During 2000, we continued to improve the breadth, depth and momentum of our voluntary challenge. There are now more than 760 organizations with Action Plans registered in our Challenge Registry. Champion-level reporting has doubled since 1999 to 165 organizations, comprised of 74 Gold-level, 59 Silver-level and 32 Bronze-level reporters. We have increased the number of linkages and partnerships to 45 from 21 three years ago. Use of our website continues to grow at a rate of 160% year over year. Our Challenge Registry has become the primary source of research material for studies related to the impact of voluntary climate change mitigation efforts at the individual facility and entity level. u nn al R A e p o r t 2 6 0 0 0 Our Leadership Awards continued to be a great success. On March 2, 2000, 224 people attended our third annual Leadership Awards ceremony where federal Ministers Goodale and Anderson presented 14 awards and 14 honourable mentions to Canadian individuals and organizations from the majority of sectors in our economy. In addition, a special award was made to the Canadian Industry Program for Energy Conservation (CIPEC) that celebrated 25 years of continuous reduction in the GHG emissions intensity of their products. The Board of VCR Inc. has approved the 2001-2003 Strategic Plan that will guide our activities for the next three years. Your continued support will be a vital force in the successful implementation of this aggressive plan. Working together, we can clearly demonstrate the major positive impact voluntary efforts by corporations, governments and individuals across Canada are having on the challenging task of reducing Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Michael O’Brien Robert A. Flemington, P. Eng. Chair, VCR Inc. Board of Directors President, VCR Inc. t 200 or 0 p e R l a u n 7 n A The level of reporting across all sectors has continued to improve dramatically The Challenge Registry is Canada's only publicly 1.0 accessible national registry of historic and projected voluntary greenhouse gas emissions and reductions based on individual facilities and Challenge entities. As a public forum for sharing voluntary GHG emissions reduction information, it is at the heart of VCR Inc.'s core function. Any entity with Registry operations in Canada can register an Action Plan and subsequent Progress Reports. Hundreds of organizations have registered reports annually, each describing GHG emissions, reduction projections, target setting, measures to achieve targets, and/or results, as well as education training and awareness activities related to GHG emissions reductions. The number of documents posted in the Challenge Registry has grown three-fold to over 1400 over the past three years.
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