Austria’s Annual Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1990-2008

The Umweltbundesamt presents up-to-date figures of greenhouse gas emissions in Austria. In 2008, the first year of the commitment period under the Kyoto-Protocol, greenhouse gas emissions amounted to 86.6 million t of CO2 equivalents. This corresponds to a 0.4 % reduction below 2007 levels and a 10.9 % increase against 1990 base-year levels. Driving forces behind the emission trend 2007-2008 are declining emissions in energy industries and road transport and increasing emissions in residential heating and industrial processes. Both the content and format of this report are in accordance with obligations under the greenhouse gas monitoring mechanism 280/2004/EC for implementing the Kyoto Protocol, which specify that updated greenhouse gas emission data have to be reported to the European Commission by 15 January each year.