Italian Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990-2006. National Inventory Report 2008
This document summarizes the Italian submission of the greenhouse gas inventory in the framework of the United Nation Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol, and the European Union’s Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism.
In addition to the compilation of the inventory according to the required formats, each Party to the Convention shall submit a report, the National Inventory Report, with a description of the methodologies, the sources of basic data and emission factors used to carry out emission estimates, as well as an explanation of the Quality Assurance/Quality Control procedures applied to the inventory.
In summary, total greenhouse gas emissions, in CO2 equivalent, excluding emissions and removals of CO2 from land use, land use change and forestry, increased by 9.9% between 1990 and 2006 (from 517 to 568 millions of CO2 equivalent tons), while the national Kyoto target is a reduction of 6.5% as compared the base year levels by the period 2008-2012.