The Czech Republic is required to report greenhouse gas emissions to the European Commission pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 May 2013 concerning a mechanism for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas emissions and for providing additional information at Member State and Union level. Climate Change and repealing Decision No 280/2004 / EC (1) and the Secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Kyoto Protocol.
IFER is part of the National Inventory System, which is coordinated by the Czech Hydrometeorological Institute (National Inventory System). IFER is technically responsible for preparing data for the Agriculture and LULUCF sectors. These products are prepared in cooperation with the Crop Research Institute (CRI) and Global Change Research Institute CAS (CzechGlobe).
The main outputs are the National Inventory Report and the CRF (common reporting format) tables. The results of the national inventory of greenhouse gas emissions also serve as a basis for the elaboration of projections and for the planning of measures to reduce emissions in the Czech Republic. All results of the national greenhouse gas inventory are published annually and made available to the professional and general public, selected outputs and information on greenhouse gas emissions are published in the Report on the State of the Environment of the Czech Republic, the Yearbook of the Environment of the Czech Republic, the Statistical Yearbook of the Czech Republic, the CHMI website and CENIA and in a number of other publications.
