Noel Coonan (Tipperary North, Fine Gael)
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Question 429: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government if the level of greenhouse emissions to date in 2008 is less or more than the level of greenhouse emissions in the same time frame in 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21000/08]

John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)
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In accordance with requirements under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Environmental Protection Agency prepares an annual National Inventory Report on greenhouse gas emissions. The 2008 inventory, which reports on actual emissions in 2006, is available on the Agency's website (www.epa.ie). Future inventories will report on emissions in 2007 and 2008, and will be made available by the Agency in due course. Inventories must be prepared in accordance with strict guidelines adopted under the Convention and, pending completion of an inventory in respect of 2008, it is not possible to comment on year-on-year changes in actual greenhouse gas emissions.