The Norwegian emission inventory

Emissions of pollutants to air cause damage to the environment, to parts of the infrastructure and to human health. To combat the effects of such emissions, Norway has in addition to its domestic environmental policy, signed the protocols on long-range transboundary air pollution (LRTAP) as well as the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. Both the domestic policy and international agreements put a need for the control and monitoring of the emissions. The purpose of this documentation is to provide information on and make transparent the emission estimation methodologies used in Norway and the origin of emission factors and activity data that are used in the estimates.

The Norwegian emission inventory is a joint undertaking between the Norwegian Pollution Control Authority and Statistics Norway. The Pollution Control Authority is responsible for the emission factors and for providing data from specific industries and sources, while Statistics Norway is responsible for developing the emission models, for the collection and development of activity data, and for the calculations.