Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Netherlands 1990-2000. National Inventory Report 2002

The report comprises explanations of observed trends in emissions; a description of an assessment of key sources and their uncertainty; documentation of methods, data sources and emission factors applied; and a description of the quality assurance system and the verification activities performed on the data. From the inventory it can be concluded that total CO2-equivalent emissions of the six greenhouse gases together increased in 2000 by about 3% relative to 1990 (1995 for fluorinated gases). This increase would be a half per cent less when comparing temperature-corrected emissions. Without policy measures emissions in 2000 would have been about 10% higher. Emissions of CO2 and N2O have increased from 1990 to 2000 by about 9% and 3%, respectively, while in the same period CH4 emissions have decreased by 24%. Of the fluorinated greenhouse gases, for which 1995 is the reference year, emissions of HFCs and PFCs decreased by 34 and 18% in 2000, respectively, while SF6 emissions (completely recalculated) decreased by about 9%.