This document is the annual EU emission inventory report under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Air Convention) (UNECE, 1979). The report and its accompanying data constitute the official submission to the Air Convention from the European Commission on behalf of the EU as a Party to the UNECE Air Convention (Box ES.1). Submission to the Air Convention is done via the UNECE secretariat. The EEA compiled the report in cooperation with the EU Member States and the European Commission.
Authors
- Catalogue number
- TH-AL-24-010-EN-N
- Citation
- European Environment Agency, European Union emission inventory report 1990-2022 – Under the UNECE Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (Air Convention) , Publications Office of the European Union, 2024, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2800/2893
- DOI
- https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2800/2893
- ISBN
- 978-92-9480-663-5
- ISSN
- 1977-8449
- Pages
- 181
- Published in
- Belgium
- Themes
- Environment policy and protection of the environment , Environmental degradation
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements 5
- Executive summary 6
- 1 Introduction 22
- 1.1 Background 24
- 1.2 Institutional arrangements 26
- 1.3 Inventory preparation process 27
- 1.4 Methods and data sources 28
- 1.5 Reporting 33
- 1.6 Key category analyses 36
- 1.7 Quality assurance, quality control and verification methods 37
- 1.8 General uncertainty evaluation 40
- 1.9 Completeness and underestimations 40
- 2 Adjustments made under the Gothenburg Protocol 44
- 3 Trends and key categories of EU pollutant emissions 47
- 3.1 Total EU emission trends, projection reporting and progress towards Gothenburg Protocol reduction commitments 47
- 3.2 Nitrogen oxide emission trends and key categories 54
- 3.3 Non-methane volatile organic compound emission trends and key categories 58
- 3.4 Sulphur oxide emission trends and key categories 62
- 3.5 Ammonia emission trends and key categories 66
- 3.6 Fine particulate matter emission trends and key categories 69
- 3.7 Particulate matter emission trends and key categories 72
- 3.8 Total suspended particulate emission trends 75
- 3.9 Black carbon emission trends 76
- 3.10 Carbon monoxide emission trends and key categories 77
- 3.12 Lead emission trends and key categories 79
- 3.13 Cadmium emission trends and key categories 82
- 3.14 Mercury emission trends and key categories 85
- 3.15 Arsenic emission trends 87
- 3.15 Chromium emission trends 88
- 3.16 Copper emission trends 89
- 3.17 Nickel emission trends 90
- 3.18 Selenium emission trends 91
- 3.19 Zinc emission trends 92
- 3.20 Dioxin and furan emission trends and key categories 93
- 3.21 Total polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission trends and key categories 96
- 3.22 Benzo(a)pyrene emission trends and key categories 99
- 4 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for air pollutants 109
- 4.1 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for energy production and distribution 110
- 4.2 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for energy use in industry sector 113
- 4.3 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for the industrial processes and product use sector 116
- 4.4 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for the commercial, institutional and households sector 120
- 4.5 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for the road transport sector 123
- 4.6 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for the non-road transport sector 126
- 4.7 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for the agriculture sector 128
- 4.8 Sectoral analysis and emission trends for the waste sector 131
- 5 Recalculations and implemented or planned improvements 134
- 5.1 Recalculations 134
- 5.3 Improvements implemented 151
- Units, symbols, abbreviations and acronyms 154
- Appendix 5 EU Member State informative inventory reports 178
- Appendix 4 Conversion chart for aggregated sector groups 174
- Appendix 3 Status of reporting and timeliness 171
- Appendix 2 Air Convention emission-reporting programme for 2024 168
- Appendix 1 Notation keys 167
- References 161
