Zammit Cutajar

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PaMs Report Energy Sector
Policies and measures of Annex I Parties
presented in their third national
communications Special Event during COP8 25
October, 2002, New Delhi, India
Harald Diaz-Bone Programme Officer UNFCCC
Secretariat
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Overview

• GHG Profile of the Energy Sector
• Key Energy Policy Objectives
• Key Policy and Measures
• Trends in the Energy Sector
• Conclusions

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GHG Profile of the Energy Sector

• Two sub-sectors Fuel combustion and fugitive
  fuel
• Reference for this presentation Fuel
  combustion, excluding transport
• Share of total GHG emissions in 2000 56
• Share of total CO2 emissions in 2000 71
• CO2 emission rose by 8 between 1990 and 2000
• CO2 from energy supply industries rose by 14

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GHG Profile of the Energy Sector
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Key Energy Policy Objectives

• Safeguarding the environment
• Promoting economically efficient energy supply
  and energy use
• Energy security
• Climate change (mostly targeting CO2)
• Competitiveness of the economy had a strong
  influence on the choice of energy PaMs

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Overview of Key PaMs
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Trends in the Energy Sector

• In the early 1990s, the mix of policies was
  somewhat fragmented, emission were rising
• Now, more rigorous approaches are taken which are
  designed to reduce the emissions substantially
  below the base-line level
• At the end of 1990s, only a few Parties were on a
  clear rising emission trend
• Stabilization or reduction trend is visible in
  most Parties projections with existing, adopted
  and planned measures

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Energy Sector Latest Trends

• Almost all Parties reported new mandatory
  policies, e.g.
• taxes on energy and CO2
• negotiated agreements
• emissions trading schemes
• energy efficiency standards
• generation quotas for RES or CHP

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Conclusions

• Most Parties are now, after a long period of
  wait and see, putting in place PaMs that should
  reduce emissions substantially from baseline
  levels
• For the most part, these new PaMs have not begun
  to have their full impact on reducing emissions
• Even so, many Parties acknowledged that these
  PaMs will not be sufficient in themselves to
  guarantee stable or falling emissions