MULTILATERAL ASSESMENT

ROMANIA

25 June 2019, Bonn, Germany

Romania’s profile

• Area: 238,397 km2

• Population in 2017: 19.644 mil hab

• Population density 2017: 82.4 hab/sqkm

• GDP per capita in 2017: 9500 EURO

• GHG/capita in 2017: 5.79 tones

• Total GHG emissions in 2017: 113.795

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Romania’s commitments

Pledge under the UNFCCC Convention for EU and its Member States:

• Unconditional quantified economy wide emission reduction target of 20%

by 2020, compared to 1990 levels

Binding commitments under Kyoto Protocol CP2

• Joint commitment of the EU, its Member States and Iceland to reduce

average annual emissions during 2013-2020 by 20% compared to base year

(implementing CP2 since 1st January 2013):

• ETS: overall EU target (-21% compared to the level in 2005).

• Non-ETS: +19% compared to 2005 (based on the principle of fairness and

solidarity within the overall EU target)

(I)NDC communicated under the Paris Agreement – The EU and its Member States

are committed to a binding target of at least 40% domestic reduction in GHG

emissions by 2030 compared to 1990.3

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Romania’s other targets and progress

Share of renewable energy (RES) in gross final energy consumption -

24% in 2020 (binding target).

2014 – 26.27% 2015 - 24.8%

Energy efficiency: indicative national target for 2020 to reduce

primary energy consumption by 10 Mtoe (aprox. 43 M toe)

–in 2014, the primary energy consumption was of 30.6 Mtoe

–in 2015 of 31.3 Mtoe

By 2030, as part of the EU, Romania committed itself to jointly:

–increase the RES share in energy consumption by at least 32%;

–achieve an indicative energy efficiency target of at least 32.5%.

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NEW existing policies and measures

• National Strategy on Climate Change and Low Carbon Economic Growth 2016-

2030 and the National Action Plan 2016-2020 on Climate Change

• National Waste Management Plan, which also includes a National Waste

Prevention Plan

• Increasing energy efficiency in residential buildings, public buildings and public

lighting systems

• Programmes to install charging infrastructure for electric cars

• Programmes to encourage the procurement of clean road transport vehicles

(electric and electric hybrid)

• Programmes on photovoltaic systems installation on households for electricity

auto-consumption and injection of surplus into the public network

• Urban mobility plans to reduce emissions from transport in major cities

• Support scheme to promote high efficiency cogeneration in district heating

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Envisaged policies and measures

• Energy Strategy 2016-2030 with an outlook to 2050

• Measures to support the production of energy from less exploited

renewable resources (i.e. biomass, biogas, geothermal)

• Improving energy efficiency of buildings using organic natural

materials

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Answers to the written phase of MA

2 questions received from 1 Party (China)

1 question on a more ambitious target by strengthening the pre-

2020 mitigation actions

1 questions on decreasing trend and the increasing path of the

projections and the associated drivers.

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Thank you for your attention !