Italian Greenhouse Gas Emissions at the end of Kyoto Protocol second commitment period: emissions reduction target and energy efficiency
The report describes the greenhouse gas emissions and removals in Italy, at the end of the second period of the Kyoto Protocol, based on the data officially transmitted in accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Mechanism of Greenhouse Gas Monitoring of the European Union
The year 2020 is key for the verification, for Italy and the European Union, of the compliance of the emissions reduction target agreed for the second Kyoto period. In 2012, an agreement was reached between the parties on the continuation of the Kyoto protocol through the Doha amendment, which sets reduction commitments for industrialized countries for the period 2013-2020. The report describes the accounting and verification of the commitments of the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, which the Member States of the European Union have decided to fulfill jointly.
The report also illustrates the main decarbonisation indicators, with information on the reduction of greenhouse gases emissions per unit of energy used or per unit of wealth produced, and the efficiency indicators, essential for understanding how efficiently energy is used to produce goods and services or to generate economic wealth
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