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 greenhouse gases from land use,
land use change and forestry, increased by 7.1% between 1990 and
2007 (from 516 to 553 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.
ISPRA
Reports - 98/2009
ISBN 978-88-448-0395-7
