12.1. In the exercise of his functions under section 10.1, the Minister must give directives to the departments and public bodies concerning the methods they must apply in order, in particular, to calculate the quantity of greenhouse gas emitted, reduced, prevented or limited or the quantity removed from the atmosphere, to quantify other elements or factors that contribute to global warming and assess their effects as well as the effects of greenhouse gases on global warming, or to assess the risks related to the impacts of global warming and of climate change and integrate them into adaptation to those impacts, if such methods are not otherwise prescribed by law.
The Minister must also give them directives concerning the methods to be applied for the reporting associated with the implementation of the climate change framework policy.
Such directives are binding on the departments and public bodies concerned and must be made public.
2020, c. 192020, c. 19, s. 41.