Environmental Protection Agency
      National Emission Inventories
      n Greenhouse Gas Inventories
      •    UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Kyoto 
           Protocol
      •    EU Monitoring Mechanism Decision (280/2004/EC)
      n Air Pollutant Inventories
      •    UNECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air 
           Pollution (CLRTAP) and its 8 Protocols
      •    National Emission Ceilings Directive (2001/81/EC)
      •    Large Combustion Plant Directive (2001/80/EC)
   What do we report?
    n Greenhouse Gas Inventories
    •                                          th
      Inventories on CO , CH , N O, HFCs, PFCs and SF  annually (15  Jan to EU and 
                 2   4 2              6 
        th
      15  April UNFCCC) 
    •                           th
      National Inventory Report (UNFCCC 15  April)
                        th
    n Air Pollutant Inventories (15  February annually CLRTAP)
    • Main pollutants; NO , SO , NMVOC, NH  and CO
                   x  2         3
    • Particulate matter; TSP, PM  and PM
                        10    2.5
    • Heavy metals; Pb, Cd, Hg (priority) As, Cr, Cu, Ni, Se and Zn (additional)
    • Persistent Organic Pollutants; Dioxins (PCDD/PCDF), PAHs, HCB (mandatory) 
      PCBs (voluntary)
    •                    th
      National data gridded every 5  year (EMEP 50km x 50km) 
    •                      th
      Informative Inventory Report (15  March annually)
   What do we report? (contd)
   n Large Combustion Plant Directive (LCPD)
   •  Inventories on NO , SO  and Dust annually (30th Sept)
                  x  2                     
   n National Emission Ceilings Directive (NECD)
   •  NO, SO , NMVOC and NH  annually (31st Dec)
        x  2             3
   n National Emission Projections – Future emission trends
       n CLRTAP, NEC and GHG to 2020/2030
       n FAPRI – animal numbers, crop statistics
    Agricultural Emission Inventories
     n GHG
         n COe~ 32% of national total
              2  
         n Agricultural CH4  ~ 91% of national CH4
         n Agricultural N2O ~ 92% of national N2O
     n Air Pollutant
         n NH ~ 98% of total
              3