Requirements for the quantitative determination of greenhouse gas emissions have been established to ensure the production accounting of greenhouse gas emissions from sources and their absorption by sinks

By the Resolution of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection dated March 28, 2024, No. 8-T, the Environmental Norms and Rules EcoNNR 17.09.08-001-2024 "Environmental Protection and Nature Management. Climate. Requirements (Rules) for Quantitative Determination of Greenhouse Gas Emissions" have been approved.

According to the legal act, when quantitatively determining greenhouse gas emissions, sources of greenhouse gas emissions directly originating from facilities managed by economic entities and from their production processes, including branches or separate divisions, are taken into account, even if they are located in different administrative-territorial units of the Republic of Belarus.

When quantitatively determining greenhouse gas emissions for the specified sources, calculation methods based on data on the economic entity's activities and emission factors, as well as calculation based on the material and raw material balance, are used.

The legal act, among other things, defines: categories of greenhouse gas emission sources; the list of greenhouse gases for which quantitative determination is carried out.

According to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, the approved environmental norms and rules will allow for the quantitative determination of greenhouse gas emissions within the framework of preparing and maintaining industrial accounting of greenhouse gas emissions by legal entities and individual entrepreneurs, which will subsequently contribute to planning measures to reduce the carbon intensity of manufactured products and confirming this for the regulatory bodies of the European Union's cross-border carbon adjustment mechanism, as well as for similar mechanisms of the Eurasian Economic Union member states.

The Resolution comes into force on April 26, 2024, simultaneously with the Law dated July 17, 2023, No. 294-Z "On Amendments to the Law of the Republic of Belarus 'On Environmental Protection'".