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Fri, 17 May, 2013 01:34:30 AM FTimes Report, May 17
 Photo - Lehtikuva The total greenhouse gas emissions in Finland in 2012 amounted to 61.4 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, the lowest since 1990, said the Statistics Finland.
The Statistics Finland report released on Friday said the drastic decline in greenhouse gas emissions was caused mainly by reduced consumption of coal and peat and increased net import of electricity.
According to the preliminary data, the greenhouse gas emissions have gone down by some 8 per cent (6 million t CO2 eq.) in 2012 compared to that in 2011 while the energy sector’s emissions diminished by around 9 per cent.
Statistics Finland releases the preliminary data on greenhouse gas emissions by sectors broken down into emissions trading scheme sources and non-emissions trading scheme sources.
The preliminary data on emissions in 2012 have not been calculated in minute details and will be revised during the eventual emission calculations that will be submitted to the Secretariat of the UNFCCC by April 15, 2014.
In addition, the Statistics Finland has estimated the regional data by municipality for 2010 and 2011 according to the place of origin and the emissions made by the sectors not included in the emissions trading scheme.
In 2012, emissions coming under the emissions trading scheme decreased by a total of around 16 per cent from that in the previous year.
In sectors outside the emissions trading scheme (e.g. use of fuel in heating of buildings and transport, agriculture and waste management), the reduction in emissions only amounted to close to 1 per cent.
The effort-sharing decision to monitor the EU’s climate change package will require in future emissions data to be broken down into emissions within and outside the emissions trading scheme.
The effort-sharing decision sets binding targets for emission reductions from the 2005 levels in non-emissions trading scheme sectors during 2013 to 2020.
The target for Finland is 16 per cent by 2020.
Between 2013 and 2020, the emissions must be on the ‘path to Kyoto’ or below it.
The path to Kyoto is linear and the starting point of it is the average of emissions from non-emissions trading scheme sources in 2008 to 2010 and its final point is the target for emissions reduction by 2020.
Emissions from non-emissions trading scheme sources are calculated as the difference between the reviewed total emissions and verified emissions of the emissions trading scheme sectors.
The data on the verified emissions of the emissions trading scheme sectors are published by the Energy Market Authority. More News
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