Emission and capture of gases causing climate change (until 2015)

Statistics Estonia

Economic and Environmental Statistics Department

Eda Grüner

Leading Statistician-Methodologist

51 Tatari Str, 10134 Tallinn, Estonia

eda.gryner [at] stat.ee

+372 625 9307

09/01/2015

09/01/2015

Antrophogenic emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, F-gases and sulphur hexafluoride by main emission sources; carbon doixide removal by ecosystems.

UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) classifications of emissions by sector

Country – total

Binding of the greenhouse gases – anthropogenic induced sequestration of greenhouse gases in ecosystem (e.g. during the photosynthesis or chemical reactions).

Carbon dioxide equivalent – the amount of CO₂ that would have the same global warming potential as the given amount of greenhouse gas.

Emission of carbon dioxide – total anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO₂) emission from the sectors of energy, industrial processes, solvent and other product use, agriculture, land use change and forestry, and waste (as defined by IPCC). Natural emission is not accounted for in this indicator.

Emission of methane – total anthropogenic methane (CH₄) emission from the sectors of energy, industrial processes, solvent and other product use, agriculture, land use change and forestry, and waste (as defined by IPCC). Natural emission is not accounted for in this indicator.

Emission of nitrous oxide – total anthropogenic nitrous oxide (N₂O) emission from the sectors of energy, industrial processes, solvent and other product use, agriculture, land use change and forestry, and waste (as defined by the IPCC). Natural emission is not accounted for in this indicator.

Greenhouse gases – gases that bind the reflecting infrared radiation and cause the rising of the global atmospheric temperature. The main greenhouse gases were carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), nitrous oxide (N₂O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFC), perfluorocarbons (PFC) and sulphur hexafluoride (SF₆).

Greenhouse gas emission – anthropogenic emission of greenhouse gas which is usually expressed in CO₂ equivalents.

Anthropogenic greenhouse gas

Sources of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases

FRAME

Not applicable.

Estonia as a whole

1990–…

The calculations were based on the data of the year 1990.

ton, ton of CO₂ equivalent

Year

DIRECTLY APPLICABLE LEGAL ACT

Not available.

Official Statistics Act

OTHER AGREEMENTS

Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat)

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

The dissemination of data collected for the purpose of producing official statistics is guided by the requirements provided for in § 34 and § 35 of the Official Statistics Act.

Not applicable.

Notifications about the dissemination of statistics are published in the release calendar, which is available on the website. On 1 October each year, the release times of the Statistical Database, news releases, main indicators by IMF SDDS and publications are announced in the release calendar (in case of publications – the release month).

http://www.stat.ee/release-calendar

All users have been granted an equal access to official statistics: this means that the dissemination dates of official statistics have to be announced in advance and no user category (incl. Eurostat, state authorities and mass media) can have access to the official statistics (results of official statistical surveys) before other users. Statistical information is first published in the Statistical Database. In case a news release is published based on the same data, the information provided in the relevant news release is simultaneously published in the Statistical Database. Official statistics are available on the website at 8.00 a.m. on the date announced in the release calender.

Year

Not published.

„Eesti statistika aastaraamat. Statistical Yearbook of Estonia”

Data are published under the heading „Environment/ Environmental pressure” in the Statistical Database in http://pub.stat.ee.

Not applicable.

Data serve as input for statistical activities 10001 „Environmental trends”, 10406 „Air emissions accounts”, 10601 „Material flow accounts” and 50201 „Sustainable development indicators”.

The methodology has been developed by the UN. The greenhouse gas inventories are compiled by the Ministry of the Environment according to the following guidelines:

Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), 1997

http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gl/invs1.html

Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. IPCC, 2000

http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/gp/english/

Methodology for the calculation of the emissions of carbon dioxide. Regulation No 94 of the Minister of the Environment of 16 July 2004 (RTL 2004, 101, 1625)

https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/12757215 (in Estonian)

Statistics Estonia, as an end-user of these data, does not have a specialised methodology.

Estonia’s national GHG (greenhouse gas) inventory submission to the UNFCCC (United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) secretariat (prepared by the Ministry of the Environment)

To assure the quality of processes and products, Statistics Estonia applies the EFQM Excellence Model, EU Statistics Code of Practice and the ESS Quality Assurance Framework (QAF). Statistics Estonia is also guided by the requirements provided for in § 7. „Principles and quality criteria of producing official statistics” of the Official Statistics Act.

Statistics Estonia performs all statistical activities according to an international model (Generic Statistical Business Process Model – GSBPM). According to the GSBPM, the final phase of statistical activities is overall evaluation using information gathered in each phase or sub-process (this information includes, among other things, feedback from users, process metadata, system metrics and suggestions from employees). This information is used to prepare the evaluation report which outlines all the quality problems related to the specific statistical activity and serves as input for improvement actions.

Users’ suggestions and information about taking them into account are available on the SE website http://www.stat.ee/tooplaan.

Since 1996 Statistics Estonia conducts reputation surveys and user surveys.

All results are available on the website http://www.stat.ee/user-surveys.

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Not applicable.

Not measured.

The data are released 720 days upon the end of the reference year (T+720).

(2012) T+658

(2011) T+657

(2010) T+657

(2009) T+659

(2008) T+659

(2007) T+640

The data have been published at the time announced in the release calender.

The data are geographically comparable.

The data are comparable across time.

Connected witrh statistical surveys 10406 „Air Emissions Accounts” and 10601 „Material Flow Accounts”.

The outputs of the statistical activity are coherent.

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The data revision policy and notification of corrections are described in the dissemination policy of Statistics Estonia http://www.stat.ee/dissemination-policy.

The data for all the years in the time series are revised annually according to the recommendations of the UN committee of experts.

SURVEY DATA

Not used.

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Data on the emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, F-gases and sulphur hexafluoride and data on removal of carbon dioxide by ecosystems are received from the Ministry of the Environment. The volumes of greenhouse gas emissions are calculated by the Estonian Environmental Research Centre in cooperation with the Departments of Thermal Engineering and Chemical Engineering of the Tallinn University of Technology.

DATA FROM OTHER STATISTICAL ACTIVITIES

Not used.

Year

Data are recieved by e-mail.

Statistics Estonia does not validate the data.

The variables and statistical units which were not collected directly but are required for output generation are calculated. In order to calculate new variables, mathematical expressions are applied to existing variables. The process may be repeated, i.e. a derived variable may be based on other derived new variables.

Not applied.

Not available.