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

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Contents

Finland’s national systembackgroundinstitutional, legal and procedural arrangementsInventory planning, preparation and management

responsibilitiesapproval 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 30.1.2003defined the tasks of different authorities in national

climate policyStatistics Finland to become the national entity with the

overall responsibility for the national GHG inventoryno new legislation needed

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Background

Transitional arrangements until end 2004Project for creating sufficient capacity in Statistics

FinlandAgreements with other agencies and institutions

participating in the inventory preparationAgreements with participating ministries on

responsibilites and support for the national systemNational system operationalised formally in January

2005

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Institutional and legal arrangements

Statistics Finlandnational entity with the overall responsibility for the

national GHG inventory national authority for the official statistics of Finland

independencyaccess to informationclose collaboration with producers of activity data,

e.g. energy, industrial and waste statistics

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Institutional and legal arrangements

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 earliersigned 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

Other assignments and projectstransportation (VTT - Technical Research Centre of

Finland, Aviation Agency) - annual contributionspecific issues under development - on demand

uncertainty estimates and key source analysissmall-scale combustion (NMVOCs)Non-CO2 GHGs from energy production

(measurement project)etc.

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Inventory protocols and responsible organisations

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

K. Other emissions

Responsible organisation A. Statistics Finland

B. Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT)

C. Statistics Finland

D. Statistics Finland E. Statistics Finland F. Finnish Environment Institute G. Finnish Environment Institute H. Agrifood Research Finland (MTT)

I. Finnish Forest Research Institute, Agrifood Research Finland J. Finnish Environment Institute K. Statistics Finland

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Procedural arrangements Statistics Finland

overall responsibility: administration and coordinationapproves 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 methodologiesQA/QC plancommunication with EU and UNFCCC (submissions, reviews)coordinate participation in reviewspublishes (webpages) and archives results (some material like models

archived at the institutes)

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Procedural Arrangements

Advisory Boardparticipants: ministries and participating instituteschanges in the national systemlonger term research (planning, funding)international collaboration (IPCC, UNFCCC reviews, EU,

etc.)

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Procedural Arrangements

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

Agreements with Ministriesspecification of responsibilities; assure funding for participating agencies and activity

data collection, etc.

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Finland’s National System

Statistics FinlandResponsible entity for inventory

- energy- industrial processes

MTTAgrifood

Research Finland

- agriculture

FinnishForest

Research Institute

- LULUCF

FinnishEnvironment

Institute- waste

- F-gasesAdministrative

information

Environmentalpermits

Emission trading

Traffic

annual GHG reports

UN and EU obligation

outsourcing

Co-operation with ministries Goverment’s policy reports UN and EU

Agreements on inventory