title: Submission under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change 2015
title: NIR 2015 (englisch)
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: Umweltbundesamt
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Klimarahmenkonvention
subject: Treibhausgasemission
subject: Kyoto-Protokoll [Klimaschutzvertrag 1997]
subject: Bundesrepublik Deutschland
subject: National Inventory Report
subject: climate gas emission
subject: Germany
subject: Kyoto Protocol
subject: Klima | Energie
subject: Climate | Energy

description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (UNFCCC), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. As a result, the international community of nations is required to implement binding action objectives and instruments for global climate protection. This leads to very extensive and detailed obligations vis-à-vis the preparation, reporting and review of emissions inventories. In keeping with Article 3 of the Kyoto Protocol, the EU countries have been making use of the option of jointly fulfilling obligations under the Kyoto Protocol and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. They have been doing so via European regulations, most recently EU Regulation 525/20131 and its Implementing Regulation 749/20142 . Current European implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, via regulations, has made the Protocol's provisions legally binding for Germany. Pursuant to Decision 24/CP.5, all Parties listed in ANNEX I of the UNFCCC are required to prepare and submit annual National Inventory Reports (NIRs) containing detailed and complete information on the entire process of preparation of such greenhouse-gas inventories. The purpose of such reports is to ensure the transparency, consistency and comparability of inventories and support the independent review process. Pursuant to to decision 15/CMP.1, as of 2010 all of the countries listed in ANNEX I of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change that are also parties to the Kyoto Protocol must submit annual inventories in order to be able to make use of flexible mechanisms pursuant to Articles 6, 12 and 17 of the Kyoto Protocol. Together with the inventory tables, Germany submits a National Inventory Report (NIR), which refers to the period covered by the inventory tables and describes the methods and data sources on which the pertinent calculations are based. The report, and the report tables in the Common Reporting Format (CRF), have been prepared pursuant to the UNFCCC guidelines on annual inventories (FCCC/CP/2013/10/Add.3) and in conformance with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for national Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC Guidelines, 2006) and the IPCC Good Practice Guidance (IPCC-GPG, 2000). The NIR contains a Part II, along with additional sub-chapters, that fulfill the expanded requirements under the Kyoto Protocol and the relevant obligations at the European level. Quelle: E-Book
description: As a Party to the United Nations Framework on Climate Change (⁠UNFCCC⁠), since 1994 Germany has been obliged to prepare, publish and regularly update national emission inventories of greenhouse gases. In February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol entered into force. As a result, for the first time ever the international community of nations is required to implement binding action objectives and instruments for global climate protection. This leads to extensive obligations vis-à-vis the preparation, reporting and review of emissions inventories. As a result of Europe's own implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, via the adoption of EU Decision 280/20041, these requirements became legally binding for Germany in spring 2004.