National Programme to Abate the Climate Change Impacts, Government Resolution No. 187
Framework document on climate change legislation, replacing the Government Resolution on the ‘Strategy of Protection of the Climate System of the Earth in the Czech Republic’. This was the central legislation implementing the Czech Republic’s international commitments following from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol. The accession to the European Union required a new overall strategy that harmonised the national policy framework with European climate legislation. This National Programme to Abate Climate Change Impacts in the Czech Republic (‘National Programme’) is the key document through which the ministries co-ordinate national cross-cutting and sectoral policies that are necessary to comply with the European Climate Change Programme and other EU climate legislation. It thus forms the basis for further, sector-specific climate legislation.
The Programme sets in particular the following targets:
• Reduction of CO2 emissions per capita by 30% by 2020 compared to 2000
• Reduction of aggregate CO2 emissions by 25% by 2020 from 2000
This document has been evaluated and updated in line with the progress in the UNFCCC negotiations and the European climate package of 2007. In 2008 the Ministry of the Environment submitted an Evaluation of the National Programme to the government, emphasising that the progress is particularly due to the increase in the share of renewable energies (particularly biomass and hydropower, but also progress in wind and solar/PV). It also outlined the inadequate progress in economic analysis of the effectiveness of the measures and the unfavourable record of energy intensity and the increase in GHG emissions per capita and in the transportation sector. It further emphasised the importance of improving the awareness among the population and its acceptability of further GHG reduction measures.
The Programme is to be updated by the new Climate Protection Policy for the 2050 period expected by the end of 2015.
