Canadian Options for Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction (COGGER)

Executive Summary

Acknowledgments

Panel Members

Preface

CHAPTER 1: Introduction

a) The Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Problem
b) Scope of This Report

CHAPTER 2: What's Worth Doing Anyway? The Economic Potential for Energy Efficiency and Fuel Switching by 2010

a) Methodological Issues
b) Comparison of Estimates
c) Achieving the Potential
d) Panel Conclusions

CHAPTER 3: How to Do More: The Implications of More Aggressive Emission Reductions

a) Methodological Issues
b) Empirical Estimates
c) Panel Conclusions

CHAPTER 4: Conclusions: Proposed Strategies, Actions and Further Research

a) Achieving the Economic Potential for Emissions Reduction
b) Going Beyond the Economic Potential
(i) Develop Economic Options for Further
Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
(ii) Encourage Global Cooperation to Reduce
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
c) A Proposed GHG Emission Reduction Strategy
d) Further Research

APPENDICES

Appendix A:
Summary of Estimates of CO2 Emission Reduction in Canada and Other Industrialized Countries

Appendix B*:
Decomposition of CO2 Emissions in Canada and Selected Countries, 1973-1990

Appendix C*:
Survey of Government and Industry Projections of Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency and Fuel Switching

Appendix D*:
CO2 Growth Rates and Emission Reduction Policies to 2000/2005 for IEA Countries

Appendix E*:
The Cost-Effective Potential for Energy-Related CO2 Emission Reduction in Canada and Other Industrialized Countries: An Annoted Bibliography

Appendix F*:
Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Studies: A Methodological Note

* Appendices B through F available on request in English free of charge, from the Canadian Global Change Program Secretariat (see title page for address).