Streamlining Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution Reporting project findings

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Streamlining Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollution
Reporting- project findings

• Justin Goodwin

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Project

• Task 1 Review Instruments (EUMM, NECD, EUETS,
  E-PRTR, RECASE, F-Gases, CO2 Cars)
• Task 2 Investigated the progress MS had made
  with streamlining their reporting of emissions
• Task 3 - Developed options for the revision of
  the MM and its implementing provisions
• Task 4 - proposed an action plan/roadmap to
  harmonise reporting more widely
• The Task 5 workshops were held in May 2008 and
  January 2009

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The Instruments
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Options and Instruments
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Roadmap
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Benefits

• Ensure Data quality and resolution supports
  policies to reduce emissions of GHGs and APs
• Including TCCCA
• Minimise the burden (Commission, the MS, and
  industry)
• providing transparent, harmonised simplified,
  procedures for reporting,
• Addressing known problems
• Assisting MS adopt inventory good practice
• Tools,
• Guidance,
• develop national systems
• Safeguarding MS existing systems
• Encourage greater transparency in the reporting
  of industrial emissions
• protection for the confidential data needed for
  national inventories and verification.

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Utopia
Projections PAMs
Activity Data
Trends in Emissions
National Report
Diffuse Regulated
National
National Reporting
Facility/Installation Emissions
Regulated
Facility Reporting
Diffuse
Diffuse Reporting
INSPIREd
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Findings National Instruments

• MM
• Good Reporting Framework and Templates for
  Historic Emissions of GHGs Activity data
• Benefits from UNFCCC Review activities.
• Projections and PAMs reporting is less
  structured.
• NECD
• Reporting linked to UNECE reports.
• Less well defined reporting framework...
• Timeseries
• Activity Data
• Projections and PAMs
• Limited requirements/instructions on compilation
  or reporting.
• Less mature review systems and more limited
  datasets with which to review.
• Limited mandate for MS to use reported Facility
  level data.

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Findings Operator/Installation/Facility
Instruments

• EUETS
• Elaborate Detailed installation reports (AERs)
• Independent verification
• Lack of transparency with other operator
  reporting (LCPD E-PRTR) and installation
  regulation (IPPC)
• AERs not universally used by all MS ad source
  material for national inventories.
• E-PRTR
• Large scope of releases (Air (GHG, APs, HMs,
  POPs) Water
• Aggregated emissions reporting (Lack of
  transparency about important processes)
• Very limited QA/QC/Review.. Lacking supplementary
  data (Activity data)
• Lack of transparency with other operator
  reporting (LCPD EUETS) and installation
  regulation (IPPC)
• RECAST
• Large net (regulates 50,000 processes).
• No unified reporting requirements (Left to CAs)
• Lack of transparency with operator reporting
  (LCPD, E-PRTR EUETS).

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Findings MS Activities (1 of 2)

• In principle countries in favour of
  streamlining
• technically feasible to move to more fully
  integrated EU reporting systems over next10
  years.
• Most MS have already made efforts to integrate
  their data flows and data structures for
  compilation and reporting.
• Some devil in the detail.. Methods can not be
  too standardised...

Box 1 MS Practice Most, if not all, MS already
use national statistical data to ensure emissions
reported under the MM are consistent with
emissions reported under the NECD 50 store all
GHG and AP emissions data within one system 60
use non-emissions reporting instruments to
generate (or improve the quality) of their data
and 65 use some industrial facility data in
reporting under NECD and/or CLRTAP. More than
80 report principally the same emissions data
under NECD and CLRTAP. Over 90 use emission
data collected under the LCPD in reporting under
other instruments and/or to verify other data in
the NECD/CLRTAP inventories, approximately 40
use data collected under E-PRTR reporting in
their national GHG (MM) and/or AP (NECD/CLRTAP)
inventories lt40 are able to assign other
facility level data to Common Reporting Format
(CRF) and/or Nomenclature for Reporting (NFR)
source categories.
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Findings MS Activities (2 of 2)
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Recommendations National Inventories

• MM
• Explicitly refer to the EMEP/EEA Guidebook for
  methods and good practice for indirect GHG
• NECD
• Strengthen TCCCA reporting for NECD pollutants
  including timeseries
• Strengthen Review of NECD pollutants.
• MM NECD
• guidelines for compilation and reporting of
  projections and PAMs
• Strengthen use of industrial facility/installation
  data(e.g. from EU ETS/E-PRTR/LCPD/RECAST) for
  national inventories
• Strengthen use of national statistics and
  statistical techniques in inventory compilation
• Use the same underlying activity data is used for
  MM and NECD reporting
• Harmonize the templates/tools and
  reporting/publishing systems to be used between
  the NECD EUMM
• Investigate once only reporting of indirect GHGs
  (SO2, NOx and NMVOC) either under the CLRTAP or
  NECD.

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Recommendations Facility/Installations

• Single National Systems for Operator Reporting
• What would that contain..?
• Facility definitions (Tiered-connected)
  E-PRTR-IPPC-EUETS. Owner..
• Geo Referencing (INSPIRE Linked)
• Emission/Installation classifications
  IPPC-IPCC-NACE
• Activity data Reporting
• Interoperable national systems for EU data
  collection (SEIS)

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Recommendations Operator Reporting

• Possible Guidance to Support MS in defining their
  systems
• EUETS
• Improve the centralisation of non-confidential
  data from EU ETS Annual Emissions Reports
• AER reports to include IPCC categorisation
• E-PRTR
• Reporting of activity data for non EU ETS
  installations and links between E-PRTR and EUETS
  installations.
• additional emissions activity in E-PRTR reporting
  to Cas.. E.g. process and fuel combustion
  emissions according to IPCC.
• handling of confidential data by the Statistical
  Agencies
• enable improved checking, verification and
  integration of E-PRTR data into national
  inventories.
• RECAST
• Use permitting to collect annual emissions data
  for important installations and pollutants not
  included under E-PRTR or EU ETS.
• Improve flow installation monitoring data for
  country specific emissions factors and
  projections (e.g. details of BAT and planned
  improvements to plant).
• EUETS/E-PRTR/RECAST
• Harmonise operator reporting formats and tools
  between EU ETS, E-PRTR and RECAST
• unique identification of installations so that
  they can be linked to other reporting and
  regulatory systems (EUETS/IPPC/RECAST E-PRTR)

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Possible Place for a New Instrument?

• Air and Climate Emissions.
• Methodologies Minimum requirements for emission
  estimation Installation National level.
• Reporting Minimum requirements for Reporting for
  installation National level.
• Meeting the needs of the EU and MS for policy
  development and reporting to the UN.
• Would not replace all of MM, NECD, EU ETS, E-PRTR
  or IPPC.
• Could cover data flows, data quality, temporal
  and spatial information, and allowing for maximum
  re-use of data. (Implementing SEIS for Emissions
  Data)

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Thank you

• Keep Streamlining alive!!!