Effectiveness of meeting the targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

The Court of Audit of the Republic of Slovenia audited how effective were the Government of the Republic of Slovenia, the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food in achieving the goals in the field of reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the period from 2013-2019.

Slovenia has been successful in achieving international goals in the field of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, however national goals were not achieved. Auditors have pointed out that the internationally and nationally set targets for 2030 and 2050, respectively, are set more ambitiously than they have been so far, and that they will be more challenging to achieve with the current structure and dynamics of the implementation of measures.

In the period up to 2020, Slovenia did not take on a sufficiently active role in this field, although the largest emissions in the EU Emissions Trading System are contributed by the production of electricity and heat, which is mostly owned by the state.

Greenhouse gas emission targets in the EU Effort Sharing Decision were achieved in 2018 in four sectors: agriculture, consumer goods, energy and waste, but not in the transport and industry sectors. The most problematic was transport, which in 2018 contributed half of the greenhouse gas emissions in these sectors.

The government should determine which body at the state level has the competence to monitor, direct and influence the coordinated implementation of activities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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