Key Facts about: Climate Change
EU emissions of greenhouse gases compared with Kyoto Protocol targets for 1990-2012
EU-15
The EU-15 (pre-2004 Member States) have a target to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to 8 per cent below 1990 (base-year) levels by 2008-2012. In 2005 total GHG emissions in the EU-15, excluding Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) fell by 0.8 per cent compared to 2004 and remained 1.5 per cent below 1990 emissions and 2 per cent lower than the base year [1].
The decrease in EU15 emissions between 2004 and 2005 was mainly due to lower CO2 emissions from public electricity and heat production, households and services, and road transport. Germany, Finland and the Netherlands contributed most to the EU-15 reduction in absolute terms.
Total GHG emissions, without emissions and removals by LULUCF in the EU-27 as a whole, decreased by 0.7 per cent between 2004 and 2005, and overall have decreased by 7.9 per cent between 1990 and 2005.
Note 1: For EU-15 the base year for CO2, CH4 and N2O is 1990; for the fluorinated gases 13 Member States have indicated to select 1995 as the base year, whereas Austria and France have chosen 1990. As the EC inventory is the sum of Member States’ inventories, the EC base year estimates for fluorinated gas emissions are the sum of 1995 emissions for 13 Member States and 1990 emissions for Austria and France.
- Source:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
Data Tables:
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- Internet Links:
- For background information European Environment Agency
- EEA: Emissions of greenhouse gases
- European Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC)
- Annual European Community greenhouse gas inventory 1990-2004 and inventory report 2006
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Page published: 7 September 2005