The Conference of the Parties (COP), by its decisions 9/CP.2 and 3/CP.5, requested Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) to submit national inventory data on emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) by sources and removals by sinks by 15 April of each year. By its decision 6/CP.3, the COP requested the secretariat to collect, process and publish, on a regular basis, information on national GHG inventories submitted annually by Annex I Parties in accordance with decision 9/CP.2. By its decision 6/CP.5, the COP requested the secretariat to prepare documentation,
including a compilation of aggregate information and trends on GHG emissions and removals, in support of the technical review of GHG inventories outlined in that decision. The Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI), at its sixteenth session, requested the secretariat to compile information on GHG emissions and removals for the period 1990–2000 and to make it
accessible and searchable on the UNFCCC web site. This note presents the latest available data on trends in GHG emissions and removals from Annex I Parties for the period 1990–2000. Summary information, including on the status of reporting, has been published separately. Tables A.1–B.17 that follow are based on the latest GHG inventory information from Annex I Parties for those Parties that have already submitted inventories this year or on earlier submissions or national communications for those Parties that have not yet submitted their inventories in 2002. The tables included in this note provide GHG emissions and removals data from 39 out of 40 Annex I Parties 4 for which data are available. The table, Sources of GHG emission data, here included provides an indication of which inventory submissions or national communications were the source of data for the relevant years