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Denmark's Third National Communication on Climate Change
At the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in
June 1992, more than 150 countries signed the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
(the Climate Convention).
On 21 December 1993 the Climate Convention was ratified by enough countries, including
Denmark, for it to enter into force on 21 March 1994.
According to decisions made in pursuance of Article 12 of the Climate Convention
information by the Par-ties, the Convention’s industrialised countries must sumit a
Third National Communication to the Convention secretariat.
In accordance with guidelines under the Climate Convention, this Third National
Communication contains a summary (Chapter 1), information on the national circumstances
relevant to greenhouse gas emmissions and removals (Chapter 2), green-house gas inventory
information (Chapter 3), policies and measures affecting greenhouse gas emissions and
removals (Chapter 4), projec-tions and the total effect of policies and measures (Chapter
5), vulnera-bility assessment, climate change impacts and adaptation measures (Chapter 6),
financial ressources and transfer of technology (Chapter 7), research and systematic
observations (Chapter 8), and education, training and public awareness (Chapter 9).
This report thus contains information about Denmark’s implementation of the
obligations under the Climate Convention.
Denmark also contributes to the European Union’s implementation of
the Climate Convention’s obligations, including in connection with inventories of the
EU greenhouse gas inventory and in connection with the implementation of common and
coordinated policies and measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including under the
European Climate Change Programme (ECCP).
Further information on the EU’s climate policy etc. is to be found in
the EU’s Third National Communication.
Since Denmark’s ratification of the Climate Convention covers the
entire Kingdom, this communication also contains information on Greenland and the Faroe
Islands. Unlike Denmark’s Second National Communication from 1997, it is now possible
to show preliminary inventories of Greenland’s and the Faroe Islands’ greenhouse
gas emissions, because such inventories are now included in the annual emission reports to
the Climate Convention.
With respect to Denmark’s inventories and projections of emissions
and removals of greenhouse gases it should be noted that these are shown both in the form
that must be used under the Climate Convention and in the form expected to be used under
the Kyoto Protocol. Summary inventory information for the economic sectors in Denmark is
also shown. Further information and more detailed data combinations are available on the
Danish Environmental Protection Agency’s website (www.mst.dk).
The Kyoto Protocol was adopted by the Parties to the Convention in November 1997, and
after the agreement on the EU Member States’dis-tribution of the burden of the
EU’s total obligation under the Kyoto Pro-tocol, Denmark and the other EU Member
States ratified the Protocol in May 2002. Territorial reservation was taken for the Faroe
Islands in connection with Denmark’s ratification of the Protocol. It should be noted
that only Denmark’s greenhouse gas emissions are included in the EU’s
distribution of the burden under Article 4 of the Protocol because Greenland and the Faroe
Islands are not members of the EU.
Besides the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (DEPA), which is in charge of the
work, the following institutions have contributed to this Third National Communication: