Italian Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990-2013. National Inventory Report 2015
This document summarizes the official 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 synthesis, total greenhouse gas emissions, in CO2 equivalent (excluding emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from land use, land use change and forestry), decreased, in 2013, by 6.7% as compared the previous year, and 16.1% between 1990 and 2013. The declining trend, specifically observed from 2008, is explained by the effect that the economic recession has had on the national production levels affecting both the energy and industrial process sectors, but also by the increase in the use of renewable sources and improvements in energy efficiency.
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