Finland’s national system for estimating, reporting and archiving greenhouse gas inventory information

1. Finland’s national system for estimating, reporting and archiving greenhouse gas inventory information UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems under Article 5, paragraph 1 of the Kyoto Protocol Wissenshaftszentrum, Bonn, Germany

2. Contents • Finland’s national system • background • institutional, legal and procedural arrangements • Inventory planning, preparation and management • responsibilities • approval process • archiving Riitta Pipatti

3. Background • The national greenhouse gas inventory reporting and monitoring system has been built up since 1990s (working groups under the Ministry of Environment) • Decision in principle of the Government of 30.1.2003 • defined the tasks of different authorities in national climate policy • Statistics Finland to become the national entity with the overall responsibility for the national GHG inventory • no new legislation needed Riitta Pipatti

4. Background • Transitional arrangements until end 2004 • Project for creating sufficient capacity in Statistics Finland • Agreements with other agencies and institutions participating in the inventory preparation • Agreements with participating ministries on responsibilites and support for the national system • National system operationalised formally in January 2005 Riitta Pipatti

5. Institutional and legal arrangements • Statistics Finland • national entity with the overall responsibility for the national GHG inventory • national authority for the official statistics of Finland • independency • access to information • close collaboration with producers of activity data, e.g. energy, industrial and waste statistics Riitta Pipatti

6. Institutional and legal arrangements • Participating institutes: Finnish Environment Institute, Finnish Forest Research Institute, MTT Agrifood Research Finland • expert/research organisations - good knowledge base on the sector and source/sink categories in question - good possibilities to further improve and develop the methodologies • participated in inventory preparation also earlier • signed agreements specifying responsibilities and tasks (agreements) • reporting categories, activity data, methodologies (tiers), timing of the reporting, etc. Riitta Pipatti

7. Institutional and legal arrangements • Other assignments and projects • transportation (VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland, Aviation Agency) - annual contribution • specific issues under development - on demand • uncertainty estimates and key source analysis • small-scale combustion (NMVOCs) • Non-CO2 GHGs from energy production (measurement project) • etc. Riitta Pipatti

8. Inventory protocols and responsible organisations • List of protocols • A. Stationary sources (fuel combustion in point sources, such as power plants, heating boilers, industrial combustion plants and processes) • B. Mobile sources (transport and off road machinery) • C. Other fuel combustion (agriculture, households, services, public sector, etc.) • D. Fugitive emissions from energy production and distribution • E. Emissions from industrial processes • F. Emissions of F-gases • G. Non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOC) • H. Emissions from agriculture (non-combustion emissions) • I. Emissions from land use and land use change • J. Emissions from waste treatment • K. Other emissions • Responsible organisation • A. Statistics Finland • B. Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT) • C. Statistics Finland • D. Statistics Finland • E. Statistics Finland • F. Finnish Environment Institute • G. Finnish Environment Institute • H. Agrifood Research Finland (MTT) • I. Finnish Forest Research Institute, • Agrifood Research Finland • J. Finnish Environment Institute • K. Statistics Finland Riitta Pipatti

9. Procedural arrangements • Statistics Finland • overall responsibility: administration and coordination • approves the inventory (reporting for the establishment of the Assigned Amount to be approved by the Government) • calculates emissions in the energy and industrial processes sectors (excluding F-gases) • participates in development of methodologies • QA/QC plan • communication with EU and UNFCCC (submissions, reviews) • coordinate participation in reviews • publishes (webpages) and archives results (some material like models archived at the institutes) Riitta Pipatti

10. Procedural Arrangements • Advisory Board • participants: ministries and participating institutes • changes in the national system • longer term research (planning, funding) • international collaboration (IPCC, UNFCCC reviews, EU, etc.) Riitta Pipatti

11. Procedural Arrangements • GHG Inventory working group • participation from all institutes participating in the inventory preparation (also ”long-term consultants”) • annual inventory planning (schedule, improvements and recalculations, development needs) • inventory prepartion • QA/QC, Verification • objectives, procedures, assessment Riitta Pipatti

12. Procedural Arrangements • Agreements with Ministries • specification of responsibilities; • assure funding for participating agencies and activity data collection, etc. Riitta Pipatti

13. Finland’s National System Riitta Pipatti