Transcript Climate Change Related Activities in Romania

National System in Romania
- facts and challenges -
Mr. Vlad Trusca
Ministry of Environment and Water Management
- UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems - 11 April 2005 -
History
 UNFCCC – signed in 1992-Rio Earth Summit
– ratified in 1994 by Law 24
 Kyoto Protocol – signed in 1999
– ratified in 2001 by Law 3
 Romania – first Annex I country that ratified
the Kyoto Protocol
 Target – 8% reduction of GHG emissions
 European
Union
Candidate
accession to the EU in 2007
Country
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History - GHG Inventory
 The IInd National Communication (1999) -
summary of GHG inventories for years 89-94
 December 2002 – first submission of CRF
tables for the period 1992-2000 and NIR
 May 2003 – first submission in time of CRF
tables for the period 1992-2001 and NIR
 Oct. 2003 – in-country review (Bucharest)
 May 2004 – submission of the inventories
covering the entire time series 1989-2002
recalculated based on the in-country review
 Nov. 2004 – desk review
Last Inventory submitted
Source: Romania’s GHG Inventory submission 2004
Institutional Arrangements
 Ministry of Environment and Water Mngmt.
(MEWM) - NFP – coordination and submission
 National R&D Institute for Environmental
Protection (ICIM Bucharest) – GHG inventory
(Energy, Ind.Proc, Solvent&OP, Agric., Waste)
 National Institute for Forest Research and
Management (ICAS) – LULUCF
 National Commission for Climate Change
(NCCC) – advice for approval
Inventory Preparation
 Annual contract between MEWM and ICIM
 Sub-contractor ICAS (LULUCF)
 ICIM team consists of 2 full time experts
 Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines – used for the
entire time series from the first submission
 Apr. 2005 - GHG inventory is 80% ready &
recalculations of entire time series ‘89–’02
 New CRF reporter to be used in the 2005
submission together with the new tables for
the LULUCF
National System
 NS exists but still needs improvements
 GD 586/2004 establishing National System for
Integrated Assessment and Management of Air
Quality (NSIAMAQ) – legal framework for NS
 MEWM together with NEPA and ICIM is
developing a methodology based on the GD
586/2004 – procedural framework for the NS
 Based on the Annex to the Decision 20/CP.7
 General and specific functions
 3 parts: planning, preparation, management
 Considering also the EU Decision 280/2004/EC
Data Collection (1)
 Entities involved – GHG Inventory performed
annually by ICIM & NEPA supported by MEWM
 ICAS – sub-contractor LULUCF
 Main activity data provider - National Institute
for Statistics (NIS)
 Questionnaires submitted to producers,
consumers, relevant industrial enterprises
 Ministries and local EPAs for data not available
 Human resources - 2 ex. ICIM, 1 ex. ICAS
 Internal cooperation based on a Memorandum
signed between the MEWM and NIS
Data Collection (2)
 Covering of all sectors and IPCC source categ.
 Official documents published annually by NIS
 Problems identified in the base year (1989)
due to different statistical aggregation of AD
 Default EF used in general (lack of CS EF)
 Some CS EF in Energy & Ind. Processes
 Uncertainty estimation not performed yet
 Lack of important activity data for Tier 2
methods
 QA/QC plan to be developed in 2005
Problems
 Lack of financial and human resources
 Lack of data in some sectors and activities
(e.g. internal and intl. aviation) and for
certain gases (HFCs and SF6)
 Inconsistency between Romanian and intl.
statistical data (e.g. FAO, IEA)
 Using default EF and methodologies instead
of country specific
 Internal cooperation between institutions
 Timing regarding data collection
Future activities
 Finalizing the Strategy for Climate Change
Related Activities and preparing the National
Action Plan for Climate Change
 Approving methodology based on NSIAMAQ
 Testing the national system methodology for
the next year submission
 Developing CS EF and methodologies
 Shifting to higher tier method for key sources
 More comprehensive NIR
Thank you
For further information contact:
Vlad Trusca, MEWM
email: [email protected]
Ionela Draghici, ICIM Bucharest
email: [email protected]