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 According to adjusted calculations published by Statistics Finland, Finland’s greenhouse gas emissions in 1990, the benchmark year for the Kyoto Protocol, amounted to 71.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent. This revised baseline figure is about a million tonnes higher than the previously calculated total of 70.5 million tonnes. This adjustment is due to improved calculation methods, and does not affect Finland’s commitment under the EU’s internal allocation of emission reduction obligations to get emissions back down to 1990 levels by the period 2008 to 2012. Finland’s latest emission figures from part of an inventory report submitted to the European Commission in mid January. The report has been compiled by Statistics Finland, the organisation responsible for the national greenhouse gas inventory system, and also features emission trends over the whole period 1990 to 2004. The report was additionally discussed by Finland’s EU Affairs Ministerial Committee.