At its eighth session, the Conference of the Parties requested the secretariat to publish on its web site the annual inventory submissions consisting of the national inventory report (NIR) and common reporting format (CRF) of all Parties included in Annex I to the Convention. The NIRs contain detailed descriptive and numerical information and the CRF tables contain all greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, implied emission factors and activity data.
The NIRs and CRF tables can be downloaded from the table below. The NIRs and CRF tables provided here are the most recent versions of the 2015 submissions provided by Annex I Parties. The dates of the original submissions are indicated in the table. For information on the completeness of a Party’s 2015 submission please refer to the individual Status Report available, once published by the secretariat, in the last column of the table below. The secretariat also has further information on GHG emissions and removals data from Parties at the GHG data interface.
Submission of supplementary information in accordance with the Guidelines for the preparation of information required under Article 7, paragraph 1, of the Kyoto Protocol by Annex I Kyoto Protocol Parties, as available, is reflected in the last column of the table below.
In accordance with the Guidelines for the preparation of information required under Article 7 of the Kyoto Protocol, the secretariat compiles information on minimization of adverse impacts in accordance with Article 3, paragraph 14, of the Kyoto Protocol, that is reported by Annex I Parties in their NIRs.
2015 Annex I Parties GHG Inventory Submissions
This webpage contains the 2015 submissions of GHG inventories from Annex I Parties. The common reporting format (CRF) tables of the submission should be prepared using the CRF Reporter software. Following the adoption of the revised guidelines for reporting GHG inventories from Annex I Parties (decision 24/CP.19), this software had to be redesigned. Decision 13/CP.20 recognized that the deadline, as set out in decision 24/CP.19, paragraph 5 (June 2014), for providing the redesigned version of the CRF Reporter to Annex I Parties, enabling them to submit their greenhouse gas inventories, was not met and that the CRF Reporter version available by that time (version 5.0.0) was not functioning. Accordingly, decision 13/CP.20 reiterated that “Annex I Parties in 2015 may submit their common reporting format tables after 15 April, but no longer than the corresponding delay in the CRF Reporter availability”.
In order to enable Parties to start the preparation and the compilation of their GHG inventories, the UNFCCC secretariat made available in 2015, several successive releases of the software, in January, March, April, May, June, September 2015. These releases addressed the issues relating to performance, data entry, data aggregations and key known issues relating to the correct display of data in the CRF tables. On 27 November, the UNFCCC secretariat has made available an updated version of the CRF Reporter (V5.12.0). This version includes the implementation of the recalculation functionality as well as improvements in the display of reporting tables , with a particular focus on the KP LULUCF tables. The current status of the CRF tables as produced by the CRF Reporter is shown in the “markup tables” here. The tables show, in particular, where all known key issues have been resolved and where further residual work is still required. UNFCCC secretariat is actively working on resolving the remaining issues with the software.
As a result of this situation, the 2015 submission by some Parties of their GHG inventories is delayed.
1 The CRF tables include, where relevant, the KP LULUCF tables, generated using the CRF Reporter.↩
2 In accordance with the COP decision 10/CP.17 and following the notification from the Depositary, as of 9 January 2013 Cyprus is considered to be an Annex I Party for the purposes of the Convention. ↩
3 In accordance with the COP conclusion (FCCC/CP/2001/13/Add.4, section V.C.) and following ratification by Kazakhstan of the Kyoto Protocol on 19 June 2009 and its entry into force on 17 September 2009, Kazakhstan is considered an Annex I Party for the purposes of the Protocol but remains to be a non-Annex I Party for the purposes of the Convention. ↩
4 In accordance with the COP decision 3/CP.15 and following the notification from the Depositary and Malta's entry into force on 26 October 2010, Malta is considered to be an Annex I Party for the purposes of the Convention. ↩
Notes
(1) The Party have indicated that their official inventory submission of 2016 constitutes a submission under the UNFCCC for the year 2016 and a submission under the Kyoto Protocol for the years 2015 and 2016;
(2) The Party have indicated that their official inventory submission of 2016 constitutes a submission under the UNFCCC for the year 2016, a resubmission under the UNFCCC for the year 2015 and a submission under the Kyoto Protocol for the years 2015 and 2016;
(3) The CRF tables were submitted by Canada on 17 April 2015 but the Party requested that the tables be made publicly available only after the resolution of a number of display issues with the CRF Reporter software;↩
(4) The Party have indicated that their official inventory submission of 2016 also constitutes a resubmission for the year 2015;
(5) Estonia submitted the latest version of their CRF tables on 15 June 2016, however the Party requested not to publish the submission on the secretariat webpage. GHG emissions information can be found in Estonia's 2016 NIR;↩
(6) The United States of America submitted its CRF tables on 12 November 2015, however the Party requested not to make this submission publicly available due to some display issues with the CRF Reporter software. USA's GHG emissions data for the period 1990-2013 are available in the 2015 NIR.↩