Government department or organization responsible. Scheduled launch date. MDDEP Summer Summer/Fall. MTQ Fall 2006

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1 Implement a financing plan aimed at energy efficiency f individuals, industries, institutions, companies and municipalities in Québec Amend Québec s building code to improve the energy perfmance of new buildings and homes built in Québec as of 2008 Adopt the necessary mechanisms to require manufacturers of light-duty vehicles sold in Québec to meet a GHG emissions standard starting in 2010 Aim to have gas distributs include a minimum 5% of ethanol in their total fuel sales by 2010 Encourage Québec municipalities to adopt legislation between now and 2010 to offset the effects of idling mots ganization 6. Encourage the development and use of public transptation Avoidance reduction actions This measure will be integrated into the comprehensive energy AEÉ Fall 2007 efficiency plan to be submitted by the Agence d efficacité énergétique to the Régie de l énergie in fall Technical and economic assessments were carried out in 2006 and AEÉ Spring 2008 consultations are underway. Pri publication of the draft regulation in the Gazette officielle du Québec is scheduled f spring Publication of the draft regulation in the Gazette officielle du December Québec is scheduled f December New standards will apply as of January 1, The Québec government on June 7, 2007, announced the creation MRNF of a research chair in cellulose ethanol at Université de Sherbrooke and a grant f the construction of two pilot plants. Other initiatives Summer 2007 Summer/Fall 2007 Encourage the development and use of transptation alternatives Fall 2007 Encourage implementation of intermodal projects f the transptation of merchandise Fall 2006 f cellulose ethanol will be launched in the coming years. Consultations on the program are currently underway in the municipal sect. The program is scheduled f launch in the summer of Five programs targeting this measure were approved in March 2007 by the government and will be launched shtly. Investments of $16.5 million were announced in March 2007 f innovative initiatives in public transptation (electric and hybrid buses in Québec, Gatineau and Montréal). The government assistance program f alternatives to automobile transptation will be adopted shtly and launched in the fall of A $1.5 million grant f the expansion of the Pt of Sept-Îles in September A GHG reduction component is to be added to the s Programme d aide à l intégration modale in the fall of Page 1 de 5

2 Implement a suppt program f the marketing of 9. technological innovations in energy efficiency in the transptation sect Adopt legislation requiring mandaty use of speed limiting 10. devices on all trucks and setting the maximum speed f these vehicles at 105 km/hr Negotiate voluntary agreements f the reduction of GHGs 11. in Québec s industrial sect ganization AEÉ 2008 June Implement the Regulation respecting halocarbons Implement the Regulation respecting the landfilling and 13. incineration of residual materials Financial suppt the capture of biogas from landfill sites not 14. subject to the Regulation 15. Implement an aid program f waste treatment and energy recovery of agricultural biomass By 2010, improve energy efficiency of public buildings by 10% to 14% under the 2003 level and reduce fuel 16. consumption of government s and public ganizations by 20% Require each government to develop a program 17. by 2008 to reduce GHG emissions generated by employees commuting to wk October 2007 The financing program will be launched in October Modelling studies are underway to evaluate the impact of such a measure across Canada. The government intends to conclude a first agreement in June Negotiations with two other industrial sects are underway. The regulation is in fce. To date, over 4,000 wkers have received environmental qualification allowing them to handle and use halocarbons. The regulation has been in fce since January 1, Summer 2007 MAPAQ October 2007 AEÉ Fall 2007 Summer 2007 Consultations on the program were held. The program will be launched in the summer of Development of programs occurred as part of the Plan d actions concertées en agroenvironnement. They will be announced in October This measure will be part of the comprehensive energy efficiency plan to be submitted to the Régie de l énergie in the fall of The SIQ has already carried out various initiatives in this regard. A pilot project is being implemented at the and will be extended to all s by Page 2 de 5

3 ganization Awareness raising actions The government s financial participation in a broad national public awareness campaign, which will bring together a group of June 2007 Launch a public awareness campaign f solutions to environmental partners. climate change A program destined f nonprofit ganizations to suppt Summer 2007 awareness projects on climate change will be launched at the beginning of the summer of Implement a training program f Québec companies and MDEIE October 2007 Training will begin in October ganizations on the different CO 2 credit systems Actions in research, development and deployment of technologies Implement a program to suppt technological research An inventy of emerging GHG reduction and sequestration MDEIE and innovation f the reduction and sequestration of Fall 2007 technologies will be carried out over the summer. The financial AEÉ GHGs suppt program will be launched in the fall of Introduce mechanisms to allow f preventing and mitigating the impacts of climate change on health Consolidate the moniting netwks f climate, water resource and underground water Experiment with means to mitigate the impacts of permafrost thawing on transptation infrastructures Determine the vulnerability of Québec s fests and fest industry to climate change and integrate the anticipated impacts into fest management practices MSSS MRNF Adaptation actions New climate change actions Wk on the implementation of moniting systems f intense heat episodes and infectious diseases and analyses of ventilation, heating, cooling and dehumidification needs have started and will continue over the course of Intervention plans have been developed. Consolidation of the netwks will begin in September Studies aimed at determining the impacts of the melting permafrost on urban and airpt infrastructures are almost completed. Experimental adaptation measures will be tested shtly. Studies on the vulnerability of fests and the fest sect to climate change were undertaken and will continue over the coming years. Filed studies will begin in October Page 3 de 5

4 Hydrocarbon Royalties ganization MRNF et Régie de l'énergie The federal government s ÉcoFiducie program The ClimatSol program Summer 2007 A $2 000 tax credit on the purchase of hybrid cars MRQ assistance program f public transptation Fall 2007 Programme d aide aux immobilisations en transpt en commun de la Société de financement des infrastructures locales du Québec (SOFIL) Regulation respecting the mandaty repting of certain emissions of contaminants into the atmosphere Fall 2007 Fall 2007 Framewk f the prevention of natural risks MSP On June 6, 2007, the draft regulation was submitted f publication in the Gazette officielle du Québec. The consultation period on the draft regulation is 45 days. It should be adopted by the end of August The in the meantime obtained a $22 million advance in der to accelerate the implementation of the action plan. On February 12, 2007, Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Premier Jean Charest announced the creation of the ÉcoFiducie program, under which $350 million has been set aside f Québec. Related programs will be unveiled in the fall of The program announced on May 10 will be launched in the summer of A $2 000 tax refund on the purchase of certain categies of hybrid vehicles (6 litres and less per 100 km) has been available since March The government has authized a $1,461 billion investment f its three-year capital program. The program will be launched by the fall of The SOFIL has been allocated $504 million up to f the program. It should be launched by the fall of The draft regulation respecting the mandaty repting of certain emissions of contaminants into the atmosphere was published in 2006 and will be adopted in the fall of This framewk, with a $55 million budget, will suppt municipalities that wish to take preventive action in the face of natural risks to mitigate impacts, some of which are related to climate change. Page 4 de 5

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