Poland: annual greenhouse gas emissions from waste management 2021

The annual greenhouse gas emissions in the waste management industry in Poland declined to 4.67 million tons of CO2 equivalent in 2021. As a result, the annual greenhouse gas emissions in Poland saw their lowest number in 2021 with 4.67 million tons of CO2 equivalent. Notably, the annual greenhouse gas emissions in this industry are continuously decreasing over the last years.
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 Poland from 2012 to 2021 (in million tons of CO2 equivalent)

Characteristic	Amount of emissions in million tons of CO2 equivalent
2021	4.67
2020	4.75
2019	5.18
2018	5.38
2017	5.38
2016	5.24
2015	5.61
2014	6
2013	6.5
2012	6.72

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Release date

April 2023

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Poland

Survey time period

2012 to 2021

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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