Climate Change

SENES works with our clients to promote awareness, encourage energy efficiency, decrease energy consumption from non-renewable resources, reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and thereby decrease their carbon footprints. We also assist our clients with carbon credit development and management, as well as providing advice on adaptation and mitigation measures and sustainable development.

SENES' principal areas of activities in relation to climate change are:

• Assessment of climate change science for integration into climate change policy and strategic planning
• Developing greenhouse gas emissions inventories, monitoring, modelling and air quality management
• Technical and economic review of new technologies for climate change and sustainable development
• Development of policy, regulations and guidelines based on a sound understanding of the science climate change and current policy initiatives, both globally and in Canada.
• Provision of advice on sustainable development requirements and indicators to measure progress in addressing climate change
• Strengthening institutional capacity and public awareness in Canada and world-wide, especially for adaptation to climate change. and assessing paths forward for reducing climate change emissions on a sector by sector basis
• Development of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and Joint Implementation (JI) Projects including assistance in developing Baselines, Project Development Document (PDDs), Monitoring Methodologies, and securing approvals