Transcript Introduction and Welcome - European Topic Centre for Air Pollution

Workshop on Inventories and Projections of
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Waste
(EU Climate Change Committee)
2-3 May, 2005
European Environment Agency
André Jol
Group Leader Air and Climate Change
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Improvement activities EU Climate Change
Committee
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Part of a series of workshops under the EU Monitoring
Mechanism for greenhouse gas emissions and
implementation of the Kyoto Protocol
Key sources of GHG emissions addressed so far:
• Feb. 2002: Energy (Brussels)
• Feb. 2003: Agriculture (Copenhagen)
• May 2004: Aviation and shipping
• Sep 2004: National inventory systems QA/QC of
inventories
• 2003/2004: several workshops on LULUCF,
agriculture (JRC) and on inverse modelling (JRC)
Waste (CRFcat. 6) is a key source sector: 2% of EU
total emissions (mainly methane), decrease 31% from
1990-2003 and 2.5% 2002-2003). Largest share
(73%) is from landfills.
Main objectives of this workshop
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To help improve the national and EU GHG
inventories in the waste sector to accurately
monitor the EU progress towards the Kyoto targets
To share national information and experiences
(data, methodologies)
To compare data and methods for the top-down
(UNFCCC, EU GHG MM) GHG inventories with plant
level information under EPER (IPPC) and improve
the consistency
To share information on the developments and
implementation of the Landfill Directive and the
effects on GHG inventories and projections
To agree on recommendations for improvements
Expected output
• Recommendations to Members States,
European Commission and UNFCCC/IPCC
(where relevant) on how to improve
transparency, accuracy, consistency,
comparability and completeness of
greenhouse gas inventories and
projections from the waste sector
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