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Back to SearchOne of the world’s leading engineering, environmental and construction services companies, GHD, was recently awarded a project by the Ontario Waste Management Association (OWMA) to perform a study related to cap-and-trade research for the provincial waste management sector.
Brent Boss and Tej Gidda of GHD will be presenting the preliminary results of this study to the OWMA membership as a keynote address on November 4 at 9:50 a.m. at the Canadian Waste and Recycling Expo Conference in Montreal.
This high-profile project involves input from many of GHD’s municipal and private clients across the province. Work on this project includes assessment of landfills, waste-to-energy, organics, recycling, and fleet-management-based offset projects. The results of this study will be presented to the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MOECC) on behalf of the provincial waste management sector.
GHD's role on this project reflects its experience in planning, waste management and greenhouse gas assurance.
In April 2015, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne announced that the province would be instituting a cap-and-trade system. Cap-and-trade, or emissions trading, is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants. Many municipalities have adopted emission trading systems as one of the strategies for mitigating climate change by addressing international greenhouse gas emissions.
Through the aid of the Western Climate Initiative, the cap-and-trade system in Ontario will be linked to existing programs in Quebec and California. It is estimated by the MOECC that the total annual emissions from the waste are roughly equivalent to 7.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, meaning that there is a significant opportunity for the Ontario waste management sector to implement emission reduction projects under a new cap-and-trade system.