National Accounting Matrix including Environmental Accounts (NAMEA)

Environmental Accounts Working Group Meeting

Joint Eurostat/EFTA Group19 May 2008

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NAMEA – statistics into accounts

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8. NAMEA Air Emissions

8.1 Presentation by Portugal– Questions

8.2 NAMEA Air 2008 Data collection – questionnaire 8.3 NAMEA Air Compilation Guide – New draft for

emissions inventory to NAMEA chapter and worksheet– Discussion regarding questionnaire and new draft guide

8.4 Discussion about establishing NAMEA Air accounts

9. Future plans for NAMEA

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8.1 Presentation from Portugal

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8.22008 NAMEA Questionnaire – data collection

Soon to be launched (final testing phase) Deadline for reporting end of Sept 2008 Simplified reporting tables – nested NACE Excel reporting Help, questions and reporting:

ESTAT-NAMEA-Air@ec.europa.eu Revised section of the compilation guide to

help countries improve NAMEA-air accounts

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Simplified reported: Standard industry classification aggregation A17, A31, A60 and 13 types of air emissions, 1 decimal and no blank cells

Positive Means that national

accounts reporting to Eurostat can be used – no need for special economic reporting

Reduction in reporting burden to countries – only air emissions; No energy reporting until NAMEA-energy better established

With nesting of NACE and no blank cells reported then we know what has been reported

Negative “Special aggregations” or

detail no longer possible at European level – but data not good enough for this anyway…

More detail of some NACE than is practical in some of the services and not the detail for some of the more polluting industries (example: Households and NACE P, Financial mediation: NACE J/ NACE 65, 66 and 67)

No energy data

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Why these changes?

Only the standard aggregations are now allowed in the Eurostat databases (A17= 1 letter, A31= 2 letter, A60= 2 digit)

Avoid double reporting of economic data – will match air emissions data with economic supply and use tables (A60) and other economic data already reported to Eurostat (A17, A31)

Evaluation of what data were useable from the previous data collection exercise and the aggregations that were possible at a European level – maximum 2-digit level – so more detailed data not used

If national data has greater detail – keep this! but not expected for reporting to Eurostat

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NAMEA-Air reporting questionnaire

Let’s look at the new 2008 reporting questionnaire!

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8.3 NAMEA Air Compilation Guide – New draft chapter for emissions inventory to NAMEA classification approach and worksheet

NAMEA-air compilation guide – has been in draft format for 5+ years

Want to finalize it but in its current form, is it good enough to really help countries with their reporting?No!

Have revised the important chapter - much more detail and Excel worksheets to help in the conversion from Corinair and IPCC systems to NAMEA

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New draft chapter for emissions inventory to NAMEA classification approach and worksheet

Important people in this process:Angelica Tudini, ISTAT (Italy)Stephan Moll, Wuppertal Institute

[Julie Hass, Eurostat (Statistics Norway)]

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Compilation Guide (“How to…”)

New structure of the chapter – used SNAP category to organize the chapter

The 3 main compilation steps are covered for each of the 11 main SNAP categories:

1. Understanding the emission inventory data for each SNAP process

2. Understanding how the economic activities are recorded in national ESA95 supply tables

3. Assignment of air emission data of single SNAP processes to economic activities and private households’ activities (1-to-1, 1-to-a few, 1-to-many)

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Excel worksheets to help figure out what goes where… 5 important sheets showing the different systems we

are trying to have correspond:

1. NACE rev 1.1 classification system A17, A31, A60, + most detailed including descriptions

2. SNAP97 nomenclature (emission-oriented system of the European CORINAIR project)

3. CRF_NFR Code and names (IPCC system)

4. Correspondence between 1996 IPCC source categories and SNAP97

5. Allocation of SNAP-based EMEP/CORINAIR emission data to NACE Rev.1.1 divisions (2-digits)

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Let’s look at these two new tools!

Doc. ENV/ACC/WG/07b (2008)Excel worksheets

Doc. ENV/ACC/WG/07 (2008)Draft chapter in compilation guide

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Use these new tools to help you report to the new 2008 data collection!

Then the future…

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The future… things will change! Air emissions inventories

Corinair categories will no longer be used, only CRF NFR

Problem: less detail! More difficult to assign to NACE

Several 1-to-1 become 1-to-many – more complicated and have to find new assignment keys (ways to split up)(example. NFR code 1.A.2.f.i)

Suggest: encourage that the detailed Corinair categories in your country are continued to be used!

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The future… things will change!

NACE rev 1.1 to NACE rev 2Will need to revise the Excel sheet and the chapter accordingly to the new NACE categories

Challenge: to reassign the categories to new NACESome are 1-to-1 correspondence between rev 1.1 and rev 2 but many are not!

More detail in the service industries – least polluting so often more aggregated data so uncertainty in the NAMEA figures at 2-digit level can increase.Need to find/develop new assignment keys.Consistent time series…

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Questions:

I. Is this new approach/tools helpful to countries? Are we on a better/more helpful track?

II. Want to publish a compilation guide but how do we keep this & Excel tool up to date?

Can NAMEA-air somehow benefit from collective collaboration? How do we manage this process?

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8.4 Discussion about establishing/improving NAMEA Air accounts in your country

In the countries that have just started in the past few years to produce NAMEA-air – had a Eurostat grant to try this – what do you need to improve them? Will the new compilation guide and Excel worksheets help you? How will it be possible for you to establish NAMEA-air as regular statistical production?

Switzerland, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Estonia, Bulgaria (8 countries)

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8.4 Discussion about establishing/improving NAMEA Air accounts in your country

In the countries that have not yet seriously started on NAMEA-air – since this is a priority area for reporting, how can Eurostat (or other countries) encourage/support you starting work in this area? Will the new compilation guide make it more feasible for you to start work in this area?

In the 2006 data collection, data was not received for: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Greece (received some data last week), Lithuania, Luxembourg, Latvia, Slovak Republic, Malta, Finland (re-start) and Turkey (10 countries)

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9. NAMEA – Future plans SIF publications:

2006 data collection to be published soon with EU27 estimates2008 data collection to be published in early 2009

Finalize NAMEA-air compilation guide and excel worksheets NAMEA Task Force planned in October 2008

Focus: 1) NAMEA-air Compilation guide/Excel worksheet; Handbook 2) Development work on NAMEA-energy accounts(UNSD SEEA-Energy, Oslo Group on Energy Statistics, 2 grants projects: Norway and Sweden, Report by Statistics Germany using the energy data reported in 2006 collection)3) Development work on NAMEA-waste using waste statistics reported to Eurostat (waste statistics regulation)