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Recommendation 8
8
Accepted
Paragraph: 61
Encourage UN and IPCC to update military emissions reporting and urge NATO transparency.
Recommendation
The Ministry of Defence should work with other UK government partners to encourage the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to update their reporting framework so emissions from military fuel use and other activities are set out in National Inventory Reports. The Ministry of Defence should also urge NATO to increase its transparency and publish its methodology for accounting for greenhouse gas emissions.
Government Response Summary
The government stated that military fuel use emissions are already included in the UK's National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory and published in MOD's Annual Report, with the MOD continuing to work on reporting. It also noted that NATO has already published its greenhouse gas emissions methodology, which the MOD actively supports and will remain engaged with.
Paragraph Reference:
61
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
Emissions from military fuel use are included in the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory (UK NAI) under “1A5b_Other: Mobile”5 and a breakdown of UK military fuel use is reported in the MOD’s Annual Report and Accounts – Annex D.6 The MOD will continue to work with the Department for Energy Security and NetZero (DESNZ) as the lead on UK greenhouse gas emissions reporting and the DESNZ’s independent verifiers, Ricardo Energy and Environment. NATO published its own methodology for accounting for its greenhouse gas emissions following the July 2023 Vilnius Summit. The MOD actively supports this and will remain engaged with NATO initiatives to influence and share its experiences of emissions data collection. This includes the analysis of emissions reporting, lessons learnt and continuous improvement for assessing the Department’s carbon footprint using the Green House Gas Protocol.