An emissions inventory that identifies and quantifies a country's primary anthropogenic sources and sinks of greenhouse gases is essential for addressing climate change. This inventory adheres to both: a comprehensive and detailed set of methodologies for estimating sources and sinks of anthropogenic greenhouse gases, and a common and consistent mechanism that enables Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to compare the relative contribution of different emission sources and greenhouse gases to climate change. In 1992, the Republic of Slovenia signed and in 1995, ratified the UNFCCC. As stated in Article 2 of the UNFCCC, “The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a timeframe sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner. ”2 Parties to the Convention, by ratifying, “shall develop, periodically update, publish and make available…national inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using comparable methodologies…”3 The Republic of Slovenia views this report as an opportunity to fulfil these commitments. This chapter summarizes the latest information on Slovenian anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission trends from 1986 through 2010. To ensure that the Slovenian emissions inventory is comparable to those of other UNFCCC Parties, the estimates presented here were calculated using methodologies consistent with those recommended in the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC/UNEP/OECD/IEA 1997), the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC 2000), and the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, LandUse Change, and Forestry (IPCC 2003). The structure of this report is consistent with the UNFCCC guidelines for inventory reporting.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 4140904Belowground carbon turnover in European forest : fine roots, mycorrhizal mycelia, soil organic matter and soil models : a technical report for national C reporters, LULUCF experts and ecosystem modellers.
F.24 Improvements to existing system-wide, normative and programme solutions, and methods
COBISS.SI-ID: 3767206Patent: SI 23967 (A), 20130731. Ljubljana: Urad Republike Slovenije za intelektualno lastnino, 2012. [1], 5 str., ilustr. [COBISS.SIID 3367590]
F.33 Slovenian patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 3367590ŽELEZNIK, Peter, FERLAN, Mitja. A method for measuring the dynamics of root development and apparatus for carrying out said method : EP2289307 (B1), 2012-12-26. Munich: European Patent Office, 2012. 6 f., ilustr. http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument;jsessionid=46828DE50D2EA3B6E30064887ED284EF. espacenet_levelx_prod_0?FT=D&date=20121226&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP&CC=EP&NR=2289307B1&KC=B1&ND=1.
F.32 International patent
COBISS.SI-ID: 3076262The Model YASSO07 was tested for data from Slovenian forests; it shows a slight increase of Corg in soil litter for the prediod 1986-2012, which was applied in the national report according to Kyoto / UNFCCC.
F.16 Improvements to an existing information system/databases
COBISS.SI-ID: 3918246