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WRITTEN QUESTION TO THE MINISTER FOR PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT BY DEPUTY P.V.F. LE CLAIRE OF ST. HELIER
ANSWER TO BE TABLED ON TUESDAY 15th MARCH 2011
Question
Given that Jersey has been a signatory since the 7th March 2007 of the Kyoto Protocol which sets binding targets to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions amounting to an average of five per cent against 1990 levels over the five-year period 2008-2012, what did Jersey report to the UK as its annual emissions of the following six categories of greenhouse gases since 2007?
• Carbon dioxide (CO2);
• Methane (CH4);
• Nitrous oxide (N2O);
• Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs);
• Perfluorocarbons (PFCs); and
• Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6)
Answer
The Island has reported its emissions information to the agency (AEA1) that collates the UK's information where the historical and current data was aggregated into the total UK carbon emissions. Because until 2009, the data Jersey provided was not available separately, the Statistics Unit made provisional carbon estimates based on the carbon emitted from imported energy and published these annually in the Jersey Energy Trends Report.
However, in late 2009 Jersey's emissions data was disaggregated and made available to the Island. The data is very similar to the provisional estimates made by the Statistics Unit but is more comprehensive and categorised in source and sink categories according to the International Panel on Climate Changes Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
The data set as provided to us by AEA up to and including 2009 is as follows with the Units expressed in Mt CO2 equivalents:
1 http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html (Source AEA Technology on behalf of the Department for Energy and Climate Change)
