Annual European Community greenhouse gas inventory

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Contents

Acknowledgements 8

Executive summary 9

ES.1 Background information on greenhouse gas inventories and climate change. 9

ES.2 Summary of greenhouse gas emission trends in the EC 9

ES.3 Summary of emissions and removals by main greenhouse gas. 13

ES.4 Summary of emissions and removals by main source category 14

ES.5 Summary of the emission trends by EU Member States . 15

ES.6 Information on Indirect Greenhouse Gas Emissions for EU-15. 16

1 Introduction to the EC greenhouse gas inventory 17

1.1 Background information on greenhouse gas inventories and climate change . 17

1.2 A description of the institutional arrangements for inventory preparation 19

1.2.1 The Member States 21

1.2.2 The European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment 35

1.2.3 The European Environment Agency 35

1.2.4 The European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change. 35

1.2.5 Eurostat . 36

1.2.6 Joint Research Centre. 36

1.3 A description of the process of inventory preparation 36

1.4 General description of methodologies and data sources used. 38

1.5 Description of key categories 41

1.6 Information on the quality assurance and quality control plan . 42

1.6.1 Quality assurance and quality control of the European Community inventory 42

1.6.2 Overview of quality assurance and quality control procedures in place at Member State level

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1.2.1 QA/QC activities for the CRF/NIR 2007 . 53

1.6.3 Further improvement of the QA/QC procedures . 58

1.7 Uncertainty evaluation 58

1.8 General assessment of the completeness 65

1.8.1 Completeness of Member States’ submissions. 65

1.8.2 Data gaps and gap-filling . 72

1.8.3 Data basis of the European Community greenhouse gas inventory. 74

1.8.4 Geographical coverage of the European Community inventory. 78

1.8.5 Completeness of the European Community submission. 78

2 European Community greenhouse gas emission trends . 84

2.1 Aggregated greenhouse gas emissions . 84

2.2 Emission trends by gas 87

2.3 Emission trends by source 91

2.4 Emission trends by Member State . 92

2.5 Emission trends for indirect greenhouse gases and sulphur dioxide (EU-15)93

3 Energy (CRF Sector 1) 95

3.1 Overview of sector. 95

3.2 Source categories . 97

3.2.1 Energy industries (CRF Source Category 1A1). 97

3.2.2. Manufacturing industries and construction (CRF Source Category 1A2) 122

3.2.3. Transport (CRF Source Category 1A3) . 148

3.2.4. Other Sectors (CRF Source Category 1A4) . 167

3.2.5. Other (CRF Source Category 1A5) 184

3.2.6. Fugitive emissions from fuels (CRF Source Category 1.B) 190

3.3 Methodological issues and uncertainties . 207

3.4 Sector-specific quality assurance and quality control . 209

3.5 Sector-specific recalculations . 211

3.6 Comparison between the sectoral approach and the reference approach . 211

3.7 International bunker fuels 222

3.7.1. Aviation bunkers . 223

3.7.2. Marine bunkers . 224

4 Industrial processes (CRF Sector 2) 228

4.1 Overview of sector. 228

4.2 Source categories . 229

4.2.1 Mineral products (CRF Source Category 2A) . 229

4.2.2 Chemical industry (CRF Source Category 2B) . 242

4.2.3 Metal production (CRF Source Category 2C) . 254

4.2.4 Production of halocarbons and SF6 (CRF Source Category 2E) . 268

4.2.5 Consumption of halocarbons and SF6 (CRF Source Category 2F) . 271

4.2 Methodological issues and uncertainties . 282

4.3 Sector-specific quality assurance and quality control . 283

4.4 Sector-specific recalculations . 283

5 Solvent and other product use (CRF Sector 3) 285

5.1 Overview of sector. 285

5.2 Methodological issues and uncertainties . 287

5.3 Sector-specific quality assurance and quality control . 295

5.4 Sector-specific recalculations . 295

6 Agriculture (CRF Sector 4) 297

6.1 Overview of the sector. 297

6.2 Source Categories 298

6.2.1 Enteric fermentation (CRF Source Category 4A) . 298

6.2.2 Manure management (CRF Source Category 4B) 300

6.2.3 Agricultural soils (CRF Source Category 4D). 304

6.3 Methodological issues 307

6.3.1 Enteric Fermentation (CRF source category 4A) . 308

6.3.2 Manure Management (CH4) (CRF source category 4B(a)) 322

6.3.3 Manure Management (N2O) (CRF source category 4.B(b)) . 335

6.3.4 Rice Cultivation (CH4) (CRF source category 4.C). 345

6.3.5 Agricultural soils – N2O (CRF Source Category 4D) 348

6.3.6 Agricultural Soils – CH4 . 365

6.4 Sector-specific uncertainty, quality assurance and quality control 365

6.4.1 Uncertainty 365

6.4.2 Improvements since last submission 371

6.4.3 Activities to improve the quality of the inventory in agriculture. 372

6.5 Sector-specific recalculations . 377

6.5.1 Enteric Fermentation (CRF source category 4A) . 378

6.5.2 Manure Management CH4 (CRF source category 4.B) 378

6.5.3 Rice Cultivation - CH4 (Source category 4C) 379

6.5.4 Agricultural Soils - N2O (Source category 4D) 379

6.6 List of references: 381

7 LULUCF (CRF Sector 5) 386

7.1 Overview of sector. 386

7.2 General methodological information. 388

7.3 Forest land (5A1) . 389

7.3.1 Forest Land remaining Forest Land (5A1) . 390

7.3.2 Land Converted to Forest Land (5A2) . 392

7.4 Other land use categories, and non-CO2 emissions 392

7.4.1 Cropland (5B) and Grassland (5C) . 392

7.4.2 Non-CO2 emissions . 394

7.5 Uncertainties and time-series consistency. 395

7.6 Category-specific QA/QC and efforts for improving reporting . 397

7.7 Category-specific recalculations 397

8 Waste (CRF Sector 6) 400

8.1 Overview of sector. 400

8.2 Source categories . 401

8.2.1 Solid waste disposal on land (CRF Source Category 6A) . 401

8.2.2 Wastewater handling (CRF Source Category 6B). 403

8.2.3 Waste incineration (CRF Source Category 6C). 406

8.3 Methodological issues and uncertainties . 407

8.3.1 Managed Solid Waste Disposal (CRF Source Category 6A1). 407

8.3.2 Unmanaged Solid Waste Disposal (CRF Source Category 6A2) 420

8.3.3 Waste water handling (CRF Source Category 6B) 421

8.3.4 Waste Incineration (CRF Source Category 6C) 427

8.3.5 Waste – Other (CRF Source Category 6D) 430

8.4 EU-15 uncertainty estimates. 431

8.5 Sector-specific quality assurance and quality control . 432

8.6 Sector-specific recalculations . 432

9 Other (CRF Sector 7). 434

9.1 Overview of sector. 434

9.2 Methodological issues and uncertainties . 434

9.3 Sector-specific quality assurance and quality control . 434

9.4 Sector-specific recalculations . 434

10 Recalculations and improvements . 435

10.1 Explanations and justifications for recalculations . 435

10.2 Implications for emission levels 446

10.3 Implications for emission trends, including time series consistency. 449

10.4 Recalculations, including in response to the review process, and planned improvements to the

inventory. 450

10.4.1 EC response to UNFCCC review 450

10.4.2 Member States’ responses to UNFCCC review . 450

10.4.3 Improvements planned at EC level. 455

References 456

Units and abbreviations. 463

Abbreviations in the source category tables in Chapters 3 to 9. 464

Annexes published on CD-ROM and the EEA website only:

Annex 1: Key source analysis

Annex 2: CRF tables of the EU-15

Annex 3: Status reports

Annex 4: CRF Table Summary 1A and 8(a) for the EU-15

Annex 5: CRF Tables Energy

Annex 6: CRF Tables Industrial processes