Transcript Finland’s national system for estimating, reporting and archiving greenhouse gas inventory information UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems under Article 5, paragraph 1 of the Kyoto.

Finland’s national system for
estimating, reporting and archiving
greenhouse gas inventory
information
UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems under Article
5, paragraph 1 of the Kyoto Protocol
Wissenshaftszentrum, Bonn, Germany
Contents
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Finland’s national system
 background
 institutional, legal and procedural arrangements
 Inventory planning, preparation and management
 responsibilities
 approval process
 archiving
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Background
The national greenhouse gas inventory reporting and
monitoring system has been built up since 1990s (working
groups under the Ministry of Environment)
 Decision in principle of the Government of 30.1.2003
 defined the tasks of different authorities in national
climate policy
 Statistics Finland to become the national entity with the
overall responsibility for the national GHG inventory
 no new legislation needed
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Background
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Transitional arrangements until end 2004
 Project for creating sufficient capacity in Statistics
Finland
 Agreements with other agencies and institutions
participating in the inventory preparation
 Agreements with participating ministries on
responsibilites and support for the national system
 National system operationalised formally in January
2005
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Institutional and legal arrangements
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Statistics Finland
 national entity with the overall responsibility for the
national GHG inventory
 national authority for the official statistics of Finland
 independency
 access to information
 close collaboration with producers of activity data,
e.g. energy, industrial and waste statistics
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Institutional and legal arrangements
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Participating institutes: Finnish Environment Institute,
Finnish Forest Research Institute, MTT Agrifood
Research Finland
 expert/research organisations - good knowledge base
on the sector and source/sink categories in question good possibilities to further improve and develop the
methodologies
 participated in inventory preparation also earlier
 signed agreements specifying responsibilities and tasks
(agreements)
 reporting categories, activity data, methodologies
(tiers), timing of the reporting, etc.
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Institutional and legal arrangements
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Other assignments and projects
 transportation (VTT - Technical Research Centre of
Finland, Aviation Agency) - annual contribution
 specific issues under development - on demand
 uncertainty estimates and key source analysis
 small-scale combustion (NMVOCs)
 Non-CO2 GHGs from energy production
(measurement project)
 etc.
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Inventory protocols and responsible organisations
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List of protocols
A. Stationary sources (fuel combustion in point sources,
such as power plants, heating boilers, industrial
combustion plants and processes)
B. Mobile sources (transport and off road machinery)
C. Other fuel combustion (agriculture, households,
services, public sector, etc.)
D. Fugitive emissions from energy production and
distribution
E. Emissions from industrial processes
F. Emissions of F-gases
G. Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC)
H. Emissions from agriculture (non-combustion
emissions)
I. Emissions from land use and land use change
J. Emissions from waste treatment
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K. Other emissions
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Responsible organisation
A. Statistics Finland
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B. Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)
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C. Statistics Finland
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D. Statistics Finland
E. Statistics Finland
F. Finnish Environment Institute
G. Finnish Environment Institute
H. Agrifood Research Finland (MTT)
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I. Finnish Forest Research Institute,
Agrifood Research Finland
J. Finnish Environment Institute
K. Statistics Finland
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Procedural arrangements
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Statistics Finland
 overall responsibility: administration and coordination
 approves the inventory (reporting for the establishment of the
Assigned Amount to be approved by the Government)
 calculates emissions in the energy and industrial processes
sectors (excluding F-gases)
 participates in development of methodologies
 QA/QC plan
 communication with EU and UNFCCC (submissions, reviews)
 coordinate participation in reviews
 publishes (webpages) and archives results (some material
like models archived at the institutes)
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Procedural Arrangements
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Advisory Board
 participants: ministries and participating institutes
 changes in the national system
 longer term research (planning, funding)
 international collaboration (IPCC, UNFCCC reviews, EU,
etc.)
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Procedural Arrangements
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GHG Inventory working group
 participation from all institutes participating in the
inventory preparation (also ”long-term consultants”)
 annual inventory planning (schedule, improvements and
recalculations, development needs)
 inventory prepartion
 QA/QC, Verification
 objectives, procedures, assessment
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Procedural Arrangements
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Agreements with Ministries
 specification of responsibilities;
 assure funding for participating agencies and activity
data collection, etc.
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Finland’s National System
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