Offset Credit System Protocols

• Project guidance
• Verification guidance
•  Carbon sequestration protocol: 
  • Policy for using custom coefficients
  • Guidance for developing custom coefficients
  • Additional guidance for tillage management systems

• Acid Gas Injection
• Afforestation (retracted for revisions)
• Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment
• Beef feeding
• Beef - feed days
• Beef lifecycle
• Biofuel 
• Biogas
• Biomass
• Compost
• Energy efficiency
• Engine Fuel Management and Vent Gas Capture 
• Enhanced oil recovery
• Enhanced oil recovery (streamlined)
• Instrument Gas Conversion to Instrument Air
• Landfill bioreactor
• Landfill gas
• Modal Freight
• Nitrous Oxide Abatement from Nitric Acid Production
• Non-Incineration of Thermal Waste
• Pork
• Road rehabilitation
• Run-of-the-River electricity system
• Solar electricity systems
• Sulphur Extender in Asphalt Production and Use
• Tillage
• Waste heat recovery
• Waste heat recovery (streamlined)
• Wind-Powered Electricity Systems
  

Protocols Under Development

Alberta’s protocol development process is coordinated by Carbon Offset Solutions on behalf of Alberta Environment.  A complete listing of protocols under development  is available on the Carbon Offset Solutions website.

All draft protocols are posted for a 30-day public comment.    

There are currently no draft protocols posted for public review. 

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For further information, please contact: Alberta Environment GHG Program
or
the Alberta Environment Climate Change policy unit (780) 427-5200
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