That's not a worry. Due to the short notice, I don't have a long presentation to make.
Climate Change Central is a not-for-profit corporation in Alberta, and its mandate is to reduce Alberta's greenhouse gas emissions. We report to a board of directors and concentrate our efforts on energy efficiency and conservation around new technology, emission offsets, and communications and outreach to the public.
In that work we have not spent much of our time concentrating on the upstream oil and gas sector. There are quite a number of players there already. We spend most of our time working on the demand side. However, in reviewing our mandate last year and our strategic position, we did an exercise where we looked at using the Socolow wedges approach that was done at Princeton to look at what Alberta's emission profile might be into the future. We determined that the emission profile coming from industry is going to be considerable in its growth in the future, especially concerning the oil sands. Our efforts on the demand side were going to be overtaken by the work that's going to happen on the production side.
In part of that review, we came to the conclusion that things like carbon sequestration, capture, and storage were going to be an essential piece of the Alberta action plan and Canada's as well. We looked at what we could do around this issue, and we've determined that we're going to help educate the public and the industry players on carbon capture and storage: the benefits, the challenges associated with it, and what we need to do to move this forward as a technology.
We recognize that there are significant challenges to large-scale CCS. However, it is one of the major answers to the concern in Alberta. We recognize there is work and research already ongoing. There's a considerable amount of effort around the world. However, we need policy direction, government support at all levels, and support from the public to make this a large-scale, viable technology into the future.
That's my opening presentation. Thank you very much. I look forward to answering your questions.