Current progress of Member States towards their 2017 and 2018 Effort Sharing targets

• Approximated greenhouse gas emissions, European Environment Agency (EEA)
• Greenhouse gas emissions, European Environment Agency (EEA)
• Commission Decision 2013/162/EU, Annex II: Member States Annual Emissions Allocation for the year 2013 to 2020 calculated applying global warming potential values from the fourth IPCC assessment report, European Commission
• Commission Implementing Decision 2013/634/EU, Annex II: Adjustments to Member States’ annual emission allocations for each year of the period from 2013 to 2020 calculated applying global warming potential values from the fourth IPCC assessment report, European Commission
• Commission Decision (EU) 2017/1471: Amending Decision 201/162/EU to revise Member States' annual emission allocations for the period from 2017 to 2020, European Commission
• Decision No 406/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009 on the effort of Member States to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to meet the Community’s greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments up to 2020, European Commission

• Austria
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Czechia
• Denmark
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Ireland
• Italy
• Latvia
• Lithuania
• Luxembourg
• Malta
• Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Romania
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

Member States are ranked according to their 2020 Effort Sharing targets, from the largest required reduction (Luxembourg, which has a target of -20 %) to the largest allowed increase (Bulgaria, which has a target of +20 %) compared with 2005 base year levels.

Methodology

Based on:
• 2017 historic temissions from national greenhouse gas inventories submitted in 2019;
• 2018 approximated inventories submitted in 2019;
• 2017 and 2018 national annual emission allocations (AEAs) and national 2020 targets under the ESD;
• 2005 ESD base-year levels, calculated by EEA so as to be consistent with the relative 2020 ESD target (expressed in the 2009 ESD as a percentage of 2005 emissions) and the absolute 2020 target (set in a 2013 Commission Decision and revised in 2017). The EEA calculates 2005 ‘ESD base-year emissions’ as follows: ESD base-year emissions = 2020 absolute target/(1 + % of 2020 ESD target).

Unit: Percentage change compared to 2005 ESD base-year levels.