Ministry of Environment and Forests
Planned and, respectively, implemented progresses for
strengthening National System and improving National
Greenhouse Gas Inventory of Romania, in consideration
to the associated consequence applied by the Enforcement
Branch of the Compliance Committee through Final
decision (CC-2011-1-8-Romania-EB)
Sorin Deaconu, GHG Expert, UNFCCC Inventory NFP
14/11/2011
Sixteenth meeting of the Enforcement Branch of the Compliance Committee
14-18 November 2011, Bonn, Germany
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General considerations on the presentation
• objective – to allow for an oral presentation of planned and, respectively,
implemented progresses for strengthening NS and improving the NGHGI
• in consideration to the consequence in paragraph 24 (b) of Annex to Final decision of
EB-CC (CC-2011-1-8-Romania-EB);
• based on the Plan of Romania under paragraph 2 of section XV of Decision 27/CMP. 1;
• based on the First progress report under paragraph 3 of section XV of Decision
27/CMP. 1;
• considering the conclusions of the ERT in “Potential Problems and Further Questions
from the ERT formulated in the course of the 2011 review of the greenhouse gas
inventories of Romania submitted in 2011” (Saturday paper).
• content
• studies to allow for progresses;
• planned progresses;
• implemented progresses;
• conclusions of the ERT following the in-country review of the 2011 NGHGI, elements
part of the Saturday paper;
• conclusions.
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Studies to allow for progresses
No.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Study title
“Elaboration/documentation of national
emission factors/other parameters relevant
to NGHGI Sectors Energy, Industrial
Processes, Agriculture and Waste, values
to allow for the higher Tier calculation
methods implementation”
“NGHGI LULUCF both under the UNFCCC
and KP obligations”
“Support for the implementation of the
European Union requirements on the
monitoring and reporting of the carbon
dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas
emissions”
“Environmental Integrated Informational
System”
Status of
implementation
Deadline
for
providing
final results
improving the accuracy in key
categories estimates, as previously SC ISPE SA
presented
Finalized
31 October
2011
improving the accuracy,
completeness, consistency and
transparency of the LULUCF
Sector
ICAS
Finalized
31 October
2011
strengthening the NS, including in
respect to data collection
SC ISPE SA
On-going
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November
2011
optimizing the informational fluxes
related to the NGHGI, including:
- data collection from the operators
for the Electricity and heat
production category (Energy);
- data collection from public
authorities.
SC Asesoft
International SA-SC
TeamNet
International SA-SC
Star Storage SRL
consortium
On-going
September
2012
Objectives
“Development of historical data, for the
period 1989-2010, for allowing to estimate
increasing the accuracy of the
direct and indirect GHG emissions from
Road transport estimates, using the
Road Transport using the COPERT 4 model COPERT 4 model
associated to the Tier 2 approach”
“NGHGI LULUCF both under the UNFCCC
and KP obligations”
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improving the accuracy,
completeness, consistency and
transparency of the LULUCF
Sector
Contractor
Not known at present,
Terms of
as procurement
References are
procedure is
prepared
ongoing.
31 October
2012
Not known at
Terms of
present, as
31 October
References are
2012
procurement
under preparation
procedure is ongoing.
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Planned progresses-strengthening the NS
• Updating the NEPA NS/NGHGI dedicated structure as a result of:
• governmental approval;
• employment of additional staff;
• ensuring appropriate working space and facilities;
• ensuring necessary IT equipment through the support of study 4;
• adequate training of all staff using the UNFCCC Secretariat and GHG management reviewer
training courses, under the study 3 and based on the collaboration with European Environment
Agency and European Topic Centre for Air pollution and Climate change Mitigation.
• Updating the NS as outcome of study 3;
• Updating the informational fluxes related to NGHGI under the study 4;
• KP Annex A sources-ensuring that appropriate methods are used for key categories,
improving the inventory accuracy, implementing improvements considering the previous
plans and ERT recommendations: based on previously items and on items on improving the
NGHGI to be further described;
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Planned progresses-strengthening the NS
• Enhance the transparency in presenting the adequacy of funding to improve the NS
through the planned studies and the specific changes to the NS to ensure its proper
functioning;
• Improve the accuracy of KP-LULUCF information/data through the development of Tier 2
estimates for Forest Management activity, based on study 2;
• Improve the completeness of KP-LULUCF information/data:
• Develop estimates associated to the litter and dead wood pools and with the Forest Management
activity, and to the carbon stock associated to the mineral soils and Revegetation activity based on
study 6 considering, as appropriate, the development of the National Forest Inventory;
•Updating the NEPA NS/NGHGI dedicated structure according to the previously elements.
• Improve the transparency of KP-LULUCF information/data within the NIR, based on study
2.
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Planned progresses-improving the NGHGI
• Improve the accuracy of Energy, Industrial Processes, Agriculture and Waste Sectors
related estimates:
•Based on NEPA work: development of Tier 2 CO2 emissions estimates for Public electricity and
heat production, Manufacturing industries and constructions, Other sectors and Road transport
(based on the COPERT III model use) categories (Energy); Tier 3 CO 2 estimates and Tier 2 PFC
estimates associated to the Aluminium production category (Industrial processes); Tier 2 estimates
for Managed waste disposal on land category (Waste);
• Based on study 1: Tier 2 estimates for extended data series and Tier 3 estimates, as appropriate,
for Public electricity and heat production, Manufacturing industries and construction, Other sectors
(Energy); Tier 1a estimates for Ammonia production (Industrial processes); Tier 2/Tier 1a/1b with
national parameter values estimates for Enteric fermentation, Manure management and Agricultural
soils (Agriculture); Tier 2 estimates for Solid waste disposal on land and Wastewater treatment
(Waste);
• Based on study 5: Tier 2 for Road transport estimates (using the COPERT IV model);
• Based on NEPA work: Tier 2 for Railways and Navigation categories (Energy).
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Planned progresses-improving the NGHGI
• Improve the completeness of Energy and Industrial Processes related estimates:
• Estimating the emissions for some categories in the Fugitive emissions subsector (Energy);
• Improving further the characterization of categories whose associated emissions are not
estimated when relevant methodologies exist (NEs; Energy and Industrial Processes).
• Improve the transparency of the Energy, Industrial Processes, Agriculture and Waste
Sectors related information/data:
• Improving the Energy Sector transparency, including through the extended use of detailed data in
the Energy Balance and through the inclusion in the NIR of the disaggregated data on transport and
on other fuels and other petroleum oil, data provided by the National Institute for Statistics;
• Improving the emissions and emission factors trend explanations in the NIR (Industrial
Processes);
• Improving the activity data (AD) trend explanations and the explanations on the selection of
emission factors (EFs), within the NIR (Agriculture);
• Improving the explanations on the determination of parameters, on their yearly variation and on
envisaged improvements, within the NIR (Waste).
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Implemented progresses-strengthening the NS
•Updating the NEPA NS/NGHGI dedicated structure as a result of:
• governmental approval during June-July 2011 of establishing a new unit at NEPA having
exclusively the responsibilities of administrating the NS and the NGHGI and allowing for an
increased staff number, from 5 to 16;
• employment of additional staff (11 people);
• ensuring appropriate working space and facilities;
• ensuring necessary IT equipment through the support of study 4;
• beginning of training of all staff using the UNFCCC Secretariat and GHG management reviewer
training courses.
• Analyze of the NS as outcome of study 3;
• Establishing in detail the coordinates of updating the informational fluxes related to NGHGI
under the study 4; provision of intermediary results by the contractor;
• KP Annex A sources-ensuring that appropriate methods are used for key categories,
improving the inventory accuracy, implementing improvements considering the previous
plans and ERT recommendations: based on previously items and on items on improving the
NGHGI to be further described;
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Implemented progresses-strengthening the NS
• Improvement of the transparency in presenting the adequacy of funding to improve the NS
through the planned studies and the specific changes to the NS to ensure its proper
functioning, within the NIR part of version 3 of 2011 NGHGI;
•Improvement of the accuracy of KP-LULUCF data/information through the development of
Tier 2 estimates for Forest Management activity, based on study 2; estimates have been
incorporated with the version 3 of the 2011 NGHGI;
• Improvement of the completeness of KP-LULUCF data/information:
• Beginning of elaboration by NEPA of the Terms of References associated to the study 6;
• Updating the NEPA NS/NGHGI dedicated structure according to the previously elements.
• Improvement of the transparency of KP-LULUCF information/data, based on study 2,
within the NIR part of version 3 of 2011 NGHGI.
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Implemented progresses-improving the NGHGI
• Improve the accuracy of Energy, Industrial Processes, Agriculture and Waste Sectors
related estimates:
• Based on NEPA work: Tier 2 CO2 estimates for Public electricity and heat production,
Manufacturing industries and constructions, Other sectors and Road transport (based on the
COPERT III model use) categories (Energy); Tier 3 CO 2 estimates and Tier 2 PFC estimates
associated to the Aluminium production category (Industrial processes); Tier 2 estimates for
Managed waste disposal on land category (Waste), have been developed and included within
version 2 of 2011 NGHGI;
• Based on study 1: Intermediary/final elements to allow the implementation of Tier 2 estimates for
extended data series and Tier 3 estimates, as appropriate, for CO 2 emissions, and of Tier 1a for
CH4 and N2O emissions, for Public electricity and heat production, Manufacturing industries and
construction, Other sectors (Energy); Tier 1a estimates for Ammonia production (Industrial
processes); Tier 2/Tier 1a/1b with national parameter values estimates for Enteric fermentation,
Manure management and Agricultural soils (Agriculture); Tier 2 estimates for Solid waste disposal
on land and Wastewater treatment (Waste), have been provided to MEF and NEPA by the
contractor;
• Preparation by NEPA of the Terms of References associated to the study 5;
• Based on NEPA work: Beginning of data collection in order to implement Tier 2 for Railways and
Navigation categories (Energy).
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Implemented progresses-improving the NGHGI
• Improvement of the completeness of Energy and Industrial Processes related estimates:
• Estimating for the first time emissions in Oil production, Oil transport, Natural gas
production/processing and Natural gas transmission categories of the Fugitive emissions subsector;
incorporation the estimates into version 1 of the 2011 NGHGI (Energy);
• Gradual further improvement of NEs characterization:
• Energy: for the latest characterized year, the number of NEs decreased from 88, within version 3.2 of the
2010 NGHGI to 44, within version 2 of the 2011 NGHGI;
• Industrial Processes: for the latest characterized year, the number of NEs decreased from 81, within
version 3.2 of the 2010 NGHGI to 36, within version 1 of the 2011 NGHGI.
• Improvement of the transparency of the Energy, Industrial Processes, Agriculture and
Waste Sectors related data/information:
• Improvement of the emissions and emission factors trend explanations, within the NIR part of the
version 3 of NGHGI 2011 (Industrial Processes);
• Improvement of the AD trend explanations and the explanations on the selection of EFs, within the
NIR part of the version 3 of the 2011 NGHGI (Agriculture).
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Conclusions of the ERT following the in-country review of the 2011
NGHGI-Saturday paper
• in country review of the 2011 NGHGI performed during 26 September-1 October 2011;
• concluding the review week, the ERT determined that the NS of Romania is in accordance
with the requirements on national systems specified in Decision 19/CMP. 1, noting the
improvements implemented within the 2011 NGHGI and planned improvements;
• Saturday Paper does not contain potential problems on NS;
• 10 inventory potential problems were identified by the ERT, issues related to
underestimation of emissions and overestimation of removals for years in the commitment
period;
• Romania elaborated the responses/revised estimates to all potential problems.
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Conclusions
• a significant part of NS strengthening/NGHGI improvement planned measures
has been implemented:
• NEPA’s NS/NGHGI dedicated structure has been upgraded, totalizing 16 people and benefiting
from appropriate working space and facilities, necessary IT equipment and relevant training;
• progresses on accuracy, completeness and transparency of data/information have been gradually
incorporated into the 2011 NGHGI.
• concluding the in-country 2011 NGHGI review stage, the ERT determined that
the NS of Romania is in accordance with the requirements on national
systems specified in Decision 19/CMP. 1;
•no potential problems on the National System are part of the Saturday paper
ERT provided to Romania at the end of the 2011 NGHGI in-country review.
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