Monaco sets an example – Pages Monaco
The Department of the Environment has just published the 2022 National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Report for the Principality of Monaco.
This annual report compiles the Principality’s emission data for the various substances involved in increasing the greenhouse effect retained under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) over the period 1990- 2020.
In 2020, the Principality of Monaco’s greenhouse gas emissions reached a historic low with a decrease of 31.8% compared to 1990, while the decrease in emissions in 2019 was only 18, 8%.
The main emitting sectors, which are the energy demand of buildings, mobility and waste incineration, saw their emissions decrease respectively by 21%, 17% and 19% between 2019 and 2020. Only the construction sector increased, due to the major projects in progress and their continuation in 2020. It closes the second period of the Kyoto Protocol (2013-2020) within the framework of which the Principality of Monaco has undertaken to reduce its emissions by 30% by 2020.
The next commitments that Monaco will have to meet are to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by -55% by 2030 and to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050.