First Release

Year: LX.
Zagreb, 29 September 2023
OEN-2023-1-5

ISSN 1334-0557

AIR EMISSION ACCOUNTS, 2021 – Provisional Data

 

The emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants are presented for the Republic of Croatia for the period from 2017 to 2021.

The total greenhouse gas emissions into the air decreased in 2021 compared to 2020. Emissions of air pollutants remained unchanged, except for CO emissions, which decreased in 2021 compared to 2020.

In 2021, the largest quantities of greenhouse gas emissions were generated by CO2 emissions (excluding biomass emissions as fuel), 17 410.63 thousand t (Gg), CO2 from biomass, 7 049.25 thousand t (Gg), HFC, 1 699 284.04 t (Mg), and CH4 138 827.00 t (Mg) in CO2 equivalent. Out of all pollutants in 2021, CO accounted for the highest share of emissions, 206 384.00 t (Mg).

Final data will be available in the Database on 12 January 2024.

1 AIR EMISSIONS1)

      2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
CO2 (without emissions from biomass used as fuel), 1 000 t (Gg) 18 744,00 17 724,15 17 857,45 16 870,53 17 410,63
Biomass CO2, 1 000 t (Gg) 5 906,57 6 057,52 6 228,14 6 383,96 7 049,25
N2O, t (Mg) 5 495,18 5 323,49 5 336,30 5 473,12 5 432,92
CH4, t (Mg) 152 601,35 146 557,63 144 624,92 142 926,04 138 827,00
HFC, t (Mg) CO2-equivalent 1 229 018,77 1 356 034,81 1 470 230,63 1 574 631,67 1 699 284,04
PFC, t (Mg) CO2-equivalent 0 0 0 0 0
SF6 NF3, t (Mg) CO2-equivalent 7 232,71 6 463,16 8 093,26 9 352,65 9 628,56
NOX, t (Mg) NO2-equivalent 54 878,70 49 665,94 48 526,95 45 809,08 43 661,00
SOX, t (Mg)  12 487,81 9 974,55 7 575,24 6 126,44 4 748,00
NH3, t (Mg)  32 183,33 32 678,54 30 584,20 31 554,65 31 368,00
NMHOS, t (Mg)  68 824,06 69 170,83 73 827,46 70 295,14 69 967,00
CO, t (Mg)  254 489,81 232 282,16 218 646,95 217 181,29 206 384,00
PM10, t (Mg)  38 095,44 42 442,63 34 722,77 51 408,74 49 913,00
PM2.5, t (Mg)  29 435,59 28 527,65 27 020,29 28 495,76 27 030,00

1) New, updated national and international emission factors, according to the recommended methodology for the calculation of emissions, are used each year for calculation, which makes the data incomparable with the data from the First Release OEN-2022-1-5.

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

The data source for air emission accounts is the data compilation of the Croatian Bureau of Statistics and the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development.

The air emission accounts are one of the several physical modules of Eurostat’s programme of environmental economic accounts. They are covered by Regulation (EU) No. 691/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 2011 on European environmental economic accounts.

Air emission accounts record physical flows of gaseous or particulate materials ("air emissions"), which occur as a result of economic activity (production activities of business entities and activities of private households), as explained in the European System of National Accounts (ESA).

Definitions

Air emissions are physical flows of gaseous or particulate materials from economy (production or consumption processes) that pollute the atmosphere. Air emissions include emissions of greenhouse gases CO2, N2O, CH4, HFC, PFC and SF6 NF3, as well as emissions of air pollutants NOX, SOX, NH3, NMHOS, CO, PM2.5 and PM10.

 

Abbreviations  
   
CH4 methane
CO carbon monoxide
CO2 carbon dioxide
EU European Union
Gg gigagram (1 gigagram = 1 kilotonne)
HFC hydrofluorocarbon
Mg megagram (1 megagram = 1 tonne)
NH3 ammonia
N2O nitrous oxide
NMVOC non-methane volatile organic compounds
NOx nitrogen oxides
PFC perfluorocarbons
PM2.5 particulate matter (less than or equal to a nominal 2.5 microns)
PM10 particulate matter (less than or equal to a nominal 10 microns)
SF6 NF3 sulphur hexafluoride and nitrogen trifluoride
SOx sulphur oxides
t tonne

 

Symbols  
   
0 value not zero but less than 0.5 of the unit of measure used

 

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