In future, national reporting on greenhouse gas emissions must take greater account of European emissions trading. A distinction must be made between emissions from emitters subject to trading and those not subject to trading. It was the task of the IZT to establish consistency here.

In future, national reporting on greenhouse gas emissions should take greater account of European emissions trading. Increasing consistency was required with regard to the methods and structuring of emitters. Among other things, a distinction must be made between greenhouse gas emissions from emitters subject to trading and those not subject to trading.

However, the data bases for reporting and emissions trading differ fundamentally: while emissions trading is based on data from the individual installations subject to trading, reporting is predominantly based on aggregated data from the Federal Statistical Office or the respective industry associations.

The IZT's task in the project was to make these two data bases comparable. In detail, this involved assigning the various, very detailed fuels and input materials in emissions trading to the material types in the reporting. In addition, the various emissions trading installations were allocated to the emitter structure of the reporting in order to enable a consistent distinction to be made between emissions subject to trading and emissions not subject to trading.

At the end of the project, an international workshop was held at which the results were presented and discussed against the background of international experience.