Following the example set by the other signatory developing countries, with effect from March 1 997 Morocco is obliged to provide, in accordance with Article 12, "national inventories of anthropogenic emissions from sources and absorption by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using comparable methods which will be approved by the Conference of the Parties (COP) ".
In June 1992 Morocco signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) on the occasion of the UNCED in Rio de Janeiro. The UNFCCC entered into force on 21 March 1994 and the first meeting of the Conference of the Parties is scheduled for 27 March to 7 April 1995 in Berlin.Article 2 of the UNFCCC states that its objective is "in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, to stabilise the concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a level which prevents any dangerous anthropogenic disruption of the climatic system. This level should be reached within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate changes, which does not jeopardise food production and which allows economic development to continue on a long-term basis."With a view to identifying the actions to be taken to stabilise and even reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, preliminary work has been undertaken to create a national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and absorption by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol.Following the example set by the other signatory developing countries, with effect from March 1 997 Morocco is obliged to provide, in accordance with Article 12, "national in yen tories of an thropogenic emissions from sources and absorption by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using comparable methods which will be approved by the Conference of the Parties (COP) ".The methodology drawn up by the IPCC, in collaboration with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) should provide all countries with a joint basis for compiling these inventories; it will be approved at the 1 St meeting of the COP (28 March - 7 April 1995, Berlin). The COP is the supreme body of the Convention.Between July 1994 and January 1995, Morocco prepared a national inventor y financed by the GEF/UNEP, as part of a project coordinated by the ECU (Environmental Change Unit) of the University of Oxford and ENDA-TM.Reminder of the objective of the studyAccording to the contract signed on 8 July 1994 between the SSEE and the GERERE, "the objective of the study is to establish a national inventory in Morocco of the sources of greenhouse gas emissions". |
