6 sectors that must conduct greenhouse gas inventories

Accordingly, the list of sectors that must conduct greenhouse gas inventories includes:

1. Energy: Energy production industry; energy consumption in industry, commerce, services and civil use; coal mining; oil and natural gas exploitation.

2. Transport: Energy consumption in transport.

3. Construction: Energy consumption in the construction industry; industrial processes in the production of building materials.

4. Industrial processes: Chemical production; metallurgy; electronics industry; use of substitutes for ozone-depleting substances; production and use of other industrial products.

5. Agriculture, forestry and land use: Livestock; forestry and land use change; crop production; energy consumption in agriculture, forestry and fisheries; other industrial emissions.

6. Wastes: Solid waste landfills; biological treatment of solid wastes; incineration and open burning of wastes; wastewater treatment and discharge.

2,166 GHG emission facilities must conduct an inventory

The Decision specifies a list of 2,166 GHG emission facilities that must conduct an updated GHG inventory in 2024; of which 1,805 are in the industry and trade sector; 75 are in the transport sector; 229 are in the construction sector and 57 are in the natural resources and environment sector.

The Prime Minister requested that greenhouse gas emission facilities conduct greenhouse gas inventories at the facility level according to the instructions of the Ministries of Industry and Trade, Transport, Construction, and Natural Resources and Environment; submit greenhouse gas inventory reports of the facilities according to the Government's Decree regulating greenhouse gas emission reduction and ozone layer protection as prescribed, and etc.