ZAGREB, March 4 (Hina) - Environmental Protection and Zoning Minister Bozo Kovacevic on Monday presented the first national report on the climate, and said the biggest problem was the fact that 1990 was taken as the basic year for
defining the level of emission of glasshouse gases, which was extremely low at the time. The level of emission of such gases in 1990 in Croatia was very low as a great number of facilities creating emissions were not on its territory but in Bosnia and Yugoslavia, and their emissions pertain to these countries. "If the level of emission is defined only based on emission in the basic year, Croatia could find itself unable to meet its commitments and be exposed to possible sanctions", said Kovacevic. This is why the ministry suggested that the level of emissions in 1990 be calculated by establishing a mean level of emission per capita in the former Yugoslavia, whereby the emi
ZAGREB, March 4 (Hina) - Environmental Protection and Zoning
Minister Bozo Kovacevic on Monday presented the first national
report on the climate, and said the biggest problem was the fact
that 1990 was taken as the basic year for defining the level of
emission of glasshouse gases, which was extremely low at the time.
The level of emission of such gases in 1990 in Croatia was very low
as a great number of facilities creating emissions were not on its
territory but in Bosnia and Yugoslavia, and their emissions pertain
to these countries.
"If the level of emission is defined only based on emission in the
basic year, Croatia could find itself unable to meet its
commitments and be exposed to possible sanctions", said Kovacevic.
This is why the ministry suggested that the level of emissions in
1990 be calculated by establishing a mean level of emission per
capita in the former Yugoslavia, whereby the emission would be
equally distributed to all former Yugoslav republics, now
independent countries, Kovacevic added.
Kovacevic said the national report on the change of climate was one
of the accomplished tasks envisaged by the UN framework convention
on climate change, and a prerequisite for discussing Croatia's
request for the ratification of the Kyoto protocol.
A UN expert team is about to arrive in Croatia to examine the report,
draw up conclusions and forward them to the convention's
secretariat. The drawing up of the report was financed by the GEF
(the Global Environment Facility). Kovacevic said GEF recently
allotted over five million dollars for the protection of Karst
areas.
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