Italy: annual greenhouse gas emissions from waste management 2022

The annual greenhouse gas emissions in the waste management industry in Italy saw no significant changes in 2022 in comparison to the previous year 2021 and remained at around 20.05 million tons of CO2 equivalent. Still, 2022 marked the second consecutive decline of the annual greenhouse gas emissions in this industry.
The European Union (EU) as a party to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) reports annually its greenhouse gas inventory for the year t-2 and within the area covered by its Member States. The inventory contains data on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) and nitrogen trifluoride (NF3). The EU inventory is fully consistent with national greenhouse gas inventories compiled by the EU Member States.

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Annual greenhouse gas emissions from waste management in Italy from 2013 to 2022 (in million tons of CO2 equivalent)

Characteristic	Amount of emissions in million tons of CO2 equivalent
2022	20.05
2021	20.22
2020	20.46
2019	19.66
2018	19.89
2017	19.91
2016	20.01
2015	20.33
2014	20.2
2013	20.41

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Release date

April 2023

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Italy

Survey time period

2013 to 2022

Supplementary notes

For this statistic, the values reported by the source have been rounded.

According to the source, the annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are estimated and reported under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Decision 525/2013/EC. The so called Kyoto basket includes six gases: carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (N2O), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6). The impact of land use, land use changes and forestry (LULUCF) on the GHG inventories is excluded. International aviation is included. Emissions are weighted according to the global warming potential of each gas. To obtain emissions in CO2-equivalents using their global warming potential (GWP) the following weighting factors are used: CH4=25 and N2O=298, NF3=17200 and SF6=22800. HFCs and PFCs comprise a large number of different gases that have different GWPs.'
Data coverage corresponds to code CRF5 of IPCC 2006.'

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