SIDE EVENTS PROGRAM - TUE NOVEMBER 14

Side Event 39

GOVERMENT OF QUÉBEC WELCOME BREAKFAST

Side Event 40

THE QUEBEC KNOW HOW IN CLIMATE CHANGE / L’EXPERTISE QUÉBÉCOISE EN CHANGEMENTS CLIMATIQUES

The Government of Québec is pleased to invite you to attend a seminar on Quebec expertise in climate change and cleantech. It will also be an opportunity to interact with the Québec organizations.

Le Gouvernement du Québec a le plaisir de vous inviter à un séminaire sur l’expertise québécoise en matière de changements climatiques et de technologies propres. Ce sera également l’occasion d’échanger avec les entreprises et organisations qui y seront présentes.

Presentation 

Side Event 41

IETA PRESS HUDDLE  

Side Event 42

REVIEW OF CO2 EOR TRANSITIONING TO CCS: FOLLOW-ON DEEP DIVE STUDY OF TEXAS AND ALBERTA

The purpose of CCS is to reduce emissions of GHG to the atmosphere as a climate change mitigation activity. However, given the relatively high costs associated with CCS, coupling it with Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) could provide a critical financial incentive to facilitate development of CCS projects in the near term. In the 2016 study “Best Practice in Transitioning from CO2 EOR to CO2 Storage,” we found that there are no specific technological barriers in transitioning and converting a pure CO2 EOR operation into a CO2 storage operation. At the same time, there are a number of legal, regulatory and economic differences which must be addressed. In 2017, the CO2 Capture Project asked ERM to conduct a deeper analysis of these issues in two jurisdictions: Texas in the U.S.A. and Alberta in Canada. We present these results at this side event.

Presentation - Arthur Lee
Presentation - Niels E. Poulsen
Presentation - Lorena Perez Bajo

Side Event 43

CANADA SHOWS THE WORLD HOW CCS IS A MAJOR WIN FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY

Canada is committed to taking strong climate action through its support for CCS (among other options) at both the national and provincial levels. Saskatchewan and Alberta are CCS pioneers with some of the world’s largest geological storage projects (EOR) as well as a coal power retrofit. When coupled with the Federal Government’s Emissions Performance Standard on coal-fired power generation, CCS applications have an increasingly compelling business case in Canada’s power and industrial sectors for enhanced environmental and sustainable resource outcomes.

Event Slide
Presentation - Graham Winkelman
Presentation - Tim Wiwchar

Side Event 44

This panel will review experiences with cap-and-trade and carbon-tax policies, and draw lessons from those experiences. Panelists will also examine the choice between – and design of – such policies, through a political-economy lens, in order to highlight important public policy principles and policy options in carbon-pricing-policy design. The panel will draw in part on a paper by Joseph Aldy - “The Political Economy of Carbon Pricing Policy Design”.