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National Inventory Report 2006 - Summary

This report contains trend analyses for emissions of greenhouse gases between 1990 and 2004. It also documents calculation methods, data sources and emission factors used. This report was commissioned by the Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment to comply to the reporting obligation in the UNFCCCC Climate Treaty and the European Union's Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Mechanism.

Emission trends in the 1990-2004 period

The greenhouse gas emissions presented here comply to the IPCC definition, which excludes temperature correction, CO2 from biomass, changes in land use and forestry (LULUCF), and international bunkers (fuels for ships and air planes). In 2004 the total greenhouse gas emissions were approximately 2% higher than in the base year (1990, and 1995 for fluorinated gases), as can be observed in Figure 1. Over the 1990-2004 period, the CO2 emissions increased by 13%, while emissions of CH4 and N2O decreased by 32% and 16%, respectively. The total emission of fluorinated gases has decreased since the base year (1995) by approximately 75%. Both emissions of HFC and PFC decreased by 75% and 85% respectively, while the SF6 emission increased by 9%.

Methods used

NIR 2006 is the first report in which actualised methods were used, as set down in the protocols. As part of the 'National System', these protocols are used to determine both the emissions occurring in the base year, 1990 (and 1995 for the fluorinated gases) and in the 1990 - 2012 period. The NIR is of special importance, functioning as it does under the ‘Initial Report’ the Kyoto Protocol. It is on the basis of this report that the UNFCCC will determine whether the Netherlands monitoring and accounting system complies with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol and/or the emissions allowed under the Kyoto Protocol (‘Assigned Amount’). 

Notable changes with respect to the National Inventory Report of 2005 (NIR 2005)

  • A new CO2- emission factor of 56.8 kg/GJ (was 56.1 kg/GJ) used for natural gas, which increases the emission by 1 Mtonne over the whole time series;
  • New time series for CO2 and CH4 for oil and gas extraction, transport and distribution;
  • A new time series for CO2 from desulphurisation of flue gas;
  • A more enhanced method for calculating CH4 emission of enteric fermentation; 
  • Improvements made in the land-use change matrix and the data for soil carbon for calculating CO2 emission from land use and forestry (LULUCF);
  • New data for calculating fluorinated gases (F-gases);
  • Addition of the new CO2-emission source 'ethylene production'.    

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