Environmental Project, 1168 – Ozone-depleting substances and the greenhouse gases HFCs, PFCs and SF – Appendix 3: Consumption and emissions of ozone-depleting substances in Greenland

Ozone-depleting substances and the greenhouse gases HFCs, PFCs and SF

Appendix 3

Consumption and emissions of ozone-depleting substances in Greenland

Statistics Denmark registers both imports to Greenland and exports from Denmark to Greenland.

The trends in supply of ODSs (only substances with position numbers in Statistics Denmark's foreign trade information) 1990-2005 are shown in Table 1.

Table 1. Trends in supply to Greenland based on data from Statistics Denmark, tonnes

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Based on the statistics available it was not possible to evaluate the consumption of substances other than those shown in the table.

In 2005, Greenland imported 10.8 tonnes CFC-11 and 4.5 tonnes of CFC-113 from Denmark (Statistics Denmark).

The import of HCFC-22 in Greenland was not possible to determine from Statistic Denmark data. But the general export of new R-22 from Danish suppliers has increased as a whole, and it is expected that export to Greenland also has increased.

No reports of import/exports of 1,1,1-trichloroethane were recorded in 2005.

From the above data, ODP-weighted consumption in Greenland for 2005 was 14.4 ODP tonnes. This is an increase compared to 2004, where the ODP consumption was 5.11 tonnes ODP tonnes. Greenlands ODP weigthed emission is more than 14 times higher than the total Danish 2005 emission.