Greenhouse Gas Emissions Projections

A greenhouse gas emission projection is an estimate of what emission levels are likely to be in the future based on key assumptions such as economic growth forecasts, and Government climate change mitigation policies and measures. Greenhouse gas emission projections are a valuable analytical tool to assess Ireland’s progress towards achieving its 2020emission reduction targets set down under the EU Effort Sharing Decision (Decision 406/2009/EC). The EPA develops national emission projections on an annual basis, in collaboration with relevant State and other bodies. This collaboration ensures consistency with economic forecasts and with projected activity in sectors including energy, agriculture, and industry.

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Alternate title

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (MMR) Article 14 Projections
Date (Revision)
2016-04-28T00:00:00
Date (Creation)
2016-04-28T00:00:00
Date (Publication)
2016-04-28T00:00:00
Citation identifier
AC.IE.EPA.GHGProjections
Purpose

The EPA publishes greenhouse gas emission projections on an annual basis and submits emission projections to the European Commission as required under the Monitoring Mechanism Regulation (Regulation (EU) 525/2013).

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Informatics

gis@epa.ie

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GemetInspireTheme

  • Atmospheric Conditions and Meteorological Geographical Features

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

  • climate

  • climate change mitigation

  • greenhouse gas

  • emission

  • carbon dioxide

  • methane

Environmental Protection Agency

  • projections

  • nitrous oxide

  • Fluorinated Gas

  • Effort Sharing Decision

  • Non Emissions Trading Scheme

  • Emissions Trading Scheme

  • green house gas

ISO 3166

  • IE
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no limitations
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Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
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License
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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Language
English
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Topic category
  • Environment
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2016-04-28T00:00:00
End date
2016-04-28T00:00:00

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1014

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Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Informatics

gis@epa.ie

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OnLine resource
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 		http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ie/eu/mmr/art04-13-14_lcds_pams_projections/projections/envvxoklg/MMR_IRArticle23T1_IE_2016v2.xml

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Conformance result

Title

INSPIRE Data Specification on Atmospheric Conditions and Meteorological Geographical Features
Alternate title

INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
Date (Publication)
2013-12-10
Explanation

The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Pass
No

Conformance result

Title

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Alternate title

INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Pass
No
Statement

The EPA receives relevant data from State bodies and other organisations which is then used to develop the emission projections. For example, energy forecasts are provided by Ireland’s Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland. Energy forecasts are developed using macroeconomic assumptions provided by the Economic and Social Research Institute. Forecasted activity data for the agriculture sector (animal numbers, crop areas and fertiliser use) are provided by Teagasc. Following receipt of this data, the EPA carries out further data processing and calculations (e.g. use of emission factors) to determine the greenhouse gas emission projection estimates. The data processing involves QA/QC checks.

Metadata

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Metadata language
English
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UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2017-11-07T11:05:38Z
Metadata standard name

ISDI Metadata Profile
Metadata standard version

1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Protection Agency

Data Analyst

gis@edenireland.ie

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Keywords

Environmental Protection Agency

Effort Sharing Decision Emissions Trading Scheme Fluorinated Gas Non Emissions Trading Scheme green house gas nitrous oxide projections
GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

carbon dioxide climate climate change mitigation emission greenhouse gas methane
GemetInspireTheme

Atmospheric Conditions and Meteorological Geographical Features


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