Transcript Objectives of the Workshop and expectations from the Commission

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Dr. Erasmia Kitou
Climate Change, Ozone and Energy Unit
DG Environment
Copenhagen, February 2006
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Data consistency between National GHG
inventories and reporting under the EU ETS
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Facts…
Under the EU ETS, emission reports due end of March for (X-1)
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EU ETS will generate a completely new EU-25 emissions data set on
CO2 emissions for the sectors covered by the scheme
Bottom–up plant-installation based vs. top-down approaches used in
the energy or industry sector
Installation-level data reported by Member States to various reporting
schemes should be consistent
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Corrections of inventory data due to detailed EU ETS data
(2006 submission of the GHG national inventory) recalculations
Changes to the base-year and national GHG emission
inventory for the Energy and Industrial Processes
Elaboration of sector caps in the National allocation Plans
for the second phase of EU ETS (2008-2012)
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Imminent problems
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Significant Consequences…
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Environmental integrity
Comparability of units
Quality of the national greenhouse gas
inventories
Reviews of greenhouse gas inventories under the
UNFCCC and the Kyoto Protocol
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Workshop Objectives
Data matching:Technical, institutional and legal problems
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Data consistency (short and long-term): Experiences, best
practice
Inventory improvement based on EU ETS
Data integration
QA/QC checks
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Specific issues to be explored…cont.
Up-to-date use of plant-specific data (energy and industrial
processes) in national GHG inventories
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Comparability: EU ETS data and GHG inventory data
(sectors where mass balance approach)
Bottom-up (EU ETS) vs. top-down (NIR)
Differences in coverage, effects of thresholds in EU ETS
Definitions of sources: inventories vs. EU ETS
Data quality: direct use of data from EU ETS in GHG
inventories
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Specific issues to be explored…
Consistency:
of CO2 emission factors for fuels, available options (e.g.
oxidation factors, emission factors, calorific values)
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with official energy statistics
of time series with EU ETS data (base year estimates?)
Timing: release of inventories and the EU ETS reporting
period
Confidentiality issue: access to EU ETS data for GHG
emission inventory purposes
EU monitoring guidelines vs. IPCC Guidelines for national
GHG inventories
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amendment of:
Decision 280/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
concerning a mechanism for monitoring Community GHG emissions
and for implementing the Kyoto Protocol (also 2005/166/EC)
…and connecting to:
Commission Decision 2004/156/EC establishing guidelines for the
monitoring and reporting of GHG emissions
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The workshop as a basis for…
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At the end of this workshop…
We need to know:
Where the differences lie?
How significant they are?
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How fast they can be addressed?
We need to have identified:
Current best practices
Practical and efficient reporting framework
Ways to ensure quality of GHG inventory
Concrete steps towards future alignment of reporting
requirements
Future submissions need to be consistent!
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