Transcript EU GHG Monitoring Mechanism

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Hartmut Behrend
European Commission
DG ENV.C.2, Brussels
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The Monitoring Mechanism
of greenhouse gas emissions
from the European
Community
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Legal basis
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• UNFCCC (in future KP)
– Revised 1996 IPCC Manual on Inventories
– Good Practise Guidance on Reporting and Uncertainty
assessment
– Guidelines on National Communications and annual
inventories (FCCC/CP/2002/8, decision 18/CP.8)
• EU
– Council Decision 280/2004/EC on GHG Monitoring
and the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
– Implementing Provisions (Commission Decision in
preparation)
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Summary of EC Council decision
• Monitoring the emissions of the six Kyoto greenhouse
gases and removals by sinks,
• Annual GHG inventory reporting by MS to the
European Commission
• Implementation and annual reporting of national
programmes (including policies and measures) and
emission projections to the Commission and
• Evaluation of progress and reporting to the European
Parliament and Council by the Commission
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Further elements
• Greenhouse gas inventory system (KP Art. 5.1)
• Procedures for the review process and adjustments (KP
Art. 5.2 and Art. 8)
• Reporting on accounting of assigned amounts and national
registries (KP Art. 7.1, 7.2 and 7.4)
• Information to be incorporated in the periodic
communications to the UNFCCC
• Policies and measures and Projections
• Reporting on flexible mechanisms (JI, CDM, IET) and
sinks
• Additional Reports
- Report on demonstrable progress
- Report on assigned amounts
• Establishment of
- national systems (incl. Report) and
- registries
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EC GHG inventory institutional
arrangements
• Member states prepare inventory according to UNFCCC
Guidelines and participate in EC Climate Change Committee,
assisted by two working groups
• European Commission (DG ENV) responsible for submission to
UNFCCC, assisted by EEA (and European Topic Centre Air and
Climate Change, ETC/ACC) and the DGs of the European
Commission ESTAT and JRC
• Working group I of the Climate Change Committee promotes
improvement of all GHG inventory quality aspects
(transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness,
accuracy and use of good practices)
• Working group II of the Climate Change Committee promotes
improvement of quality of reporting on GHG emission
projections (transparency, consistency, comparability,
completeness)
• EC “National Inventory Report” follows UNFCCC Guidelines
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Austria
UK
UNFCCC
Sweden
Belgium
Finland
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Germany
Luxembourg
Italy
Greece
EU
Denmark
France
Netherlands
European
Commission
(ENV, ESTAT, JRC)
and EEA
Ireland
Spain
Parliament
Council
Portugal
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Data flow EC GHG inventory
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Preparation EC inventory
MS submission of
1
inventory to Commission
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Initial check of submission
2
by Commission
3
4
5
6
Compilation and
circulation of draft EC
inventory
Submission of updated or
additional data to
Commission
Submission to UNFCCC
EC internal review and
improvement of inventory
15 January
February
1 March
Up to 1 April
15 April
May to December
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Activities for improving the Monitoring
Mechanism
• Eurostat improvement project for national energy balances and annual
estimation of EC CO2 emissions (IPCC Reference Approach)
• Data gap filling to achieve complete EC inventory (limited to few MS)
• Workshop on LULUCF
• Workshop on agricultural emissions
• Workshop on Projections of GHG emissions
• Workshop on GHG emissions from agriculture
• Workshop on Energy balances and energy-related GHG emissions
• Project on LULUCF emissions and removals
• Workshop on Inverse Modelling
• Project on N20-emissions from agricultural soils (ongoing)
• Workshop on bunker fuels
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Next steps of the Monitoring Mechanism (in the
Working Groups of the Climate Change
Committee)
• Establishment of a QA/QC-plan
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• Determination of uncertainties of the inventory
• Determination of uncertainties in the projections
• Workshop on emissions from the waste sector
• Workshop on demonstrable progress
• Proper implementation of the GPG on LULUCF
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EU greenhouse gas emissions in relation to
the Kyoto target (excl. LUCF)
Index (base year = 100)
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120
110
101,6
97,7
100
90
92,0
80
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
Greenhouse gas emissions
Target path 2010
GHG target 2010
CO2 emissions
2010
2012
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Community Greenhouse Gas
Inventory System
Overall responsibility for planning, preparation,
management and reporting of EC inventory
European Commission
DG Environment
UNFCCC
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EUROSTAT
EC GHG
Inventory
MS GHG
Inventories
• Assistance in
QA/QC
• compilation of
reference approach
• Assistance in QA/QC
(agriculture, LULUCF)
JRC
Community Greenhouse
Gas Inventory
System
EEA
ETC/ACC
Member
States
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Data collection
selection of methods
QA/QC, management
Planning, preparation, reporting
of MS inventories
• Preparation of
EC inventory
• Maintenance of
database and archive
• Implementation of
QA/QC procedures
Climate Change
Committee
WG1 under CCC
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Assistance of DG Env
Quality improvement
Exchange of experiences
Implementation of UNFCCC requirements
Participation
• Communication flow
• Assistance
Main data flow
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For further information you may look at:
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www.europa.eu.int/comm/environment/climate/home_en.htm
and
themes.eea.eu.int/Environmental_issues/climate
THANK YOU !
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