To provide Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Air Quality Pollutant Inventories to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the UK Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), respectively. Together these inventories are known as the UK National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory, or NAEI. These inventories will enable the UK Government to better understand UK GHG and air quality pollutant emissions, track the effectiveness of policies designed to mitigate them and meet domestic and international reporting requirements.

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To provide Greenhouse Gas (GHG) and Air Quality Pollutant Inventories to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the UK Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), respectively.

DECC

In addition to the Inventory itself, there will be a need to use and adapt the underlying database to meet a number of additional requirements:

— Data to support DECC's National Statistics on GHG emissions;

— Spatially distributed emissions maps;

— Local Authority emissions statistics;

— Devolved Administration GHG emissions inventories.

Defra

As with the GHG Inventory, there are additional requirements to be met:

— Data to support Defra's National Statistics on air pollutant emissions;

— Spatially distributed emissions maps;

— Devolved Administration air quality pollutant emissions inventories.

The contract is expected to run for 3 years 7 months with an option to extend for up to a further year (see additional info for more).