Technical Assessment of IPCC TFI Products
IPCC TFI Side-event
UN Climate Change Conference
4 December 2015
Paris, France
Baasansuren Jamsranjav
Technical Support Unit, IPCC TFI

TFI Products• Methodology Reports including:––

2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories (2006 IPCC Guidelines)
2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories: Wetlands (Wetlands Supplement)••–To fill gaps in the coverage of wetlands and organic soils in the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines
To be used in conjunction with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines

2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arisingfrom the Kyoto Protocol (KP Supplement)••

To update and augment the existing Chapter 4 of the GPG-LULUCF
To be used in conjunction with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines• Supporting Material (tools to support inventory compilers) such as:––Emission Factor Database (EFDB)IPCC Inventory Software

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Methodology Reports•

2006 IPCC Guidelines––•

Wetlands Supplement––•

Annex I Parties shall use the methodologies provided in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines forestimation of GHG emissions (Annex I to Decision 24/CP.19)
The SBI noted the requests from non-Annex I Parties for further technical support aimed atimproving their domestic capacity to facilitate continuity in meeting reporting requirements
through training on the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines (FCCC/SBI/2015/10)
Annex I Parties are encouraged to use in preparing their annual inventories under theConvention due in 2015 and beyond (Decision 24/CP.19)
Shall apply for providing information on wetland drainage and rewetting elected activity
under Article 3, paragraph 4; the use of Wetland Supplement is encouraged but notmandatory for any other activities under Article 3 paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Kyoto Protocol(Decision 6/CMP.9)

KP Supplement–Annex I Parties shall apply for purpose of providing information on GHG emissions/removals from LULUCF activities in the second commitment period (6/CMP.9)

Technical Assessment of IPCC Inventory Guidelines (1)• Expert Meeting on Systematic Assessment of TFI Products (25-27 August 2014in Ottawa, Canada)–

Assessed the TFI products and considered possible enhancements, improvements
and additions to existing guidance, as well as ways to enhance utility of the TFIproducts such as EFDB and Inventory Software• Subsequently, TFI Bureau (TFB) concluded:
The 2006 IPCC Guidelines provide a technically sound methodological basis ofnational GHG inventory, and therefore fundamental revision is unnecessary– To keep the validity of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, certain refinements may berequired, taking into account scientific and other technical advances that havematured sufficiently since 2006
– More in–depth technical assessments should be undertaken–• TFB decided to conduct technical assessment through the combination of an online questionnaire survey and expert meetings

Technical Assessment of IPCC Inventory Guidelines (2)• The on-line survey aimed to collect inputs from experts about the need and thefeasibility of methodological development or refinement for specific categoriesand gases–Conducted from 30 January to 27 February 2015

• The TFB considered the results of the survey and developed a provisional list ofissues for consideration more in detail at the expert meetings
Expert Meeting for Technical Assessment of IPCC Inventory Guidelines (Energy,IPPU, Waste Sectors), 29 June -1 July 2015, Geneva, Switzerland– Expert Meeting for Technical Assessment of IPCC Inventory Guidelines (AFOLUSector), 13-16 July 2015, Sao Paulo, Brazil–

Results of on-line questionnaire survey• Questionnaire sent toExperts who were nominated by governments and international organizations– Experts who have contributed to TFI work–• 243 experts have submitted their comments

Expert Meetings for Technical Assessment• Aimed to:– assess the maturity of scientific advances and the availability of new data
– identify any specific areas or issues that should be prioritized in TFI’s future work
– consider associated cross-sectoral issues identified in the online questionnaire
survey• Considered comments submitted by experts in response to the online
questionnaire survey to make recommendations to TFB on:– Categories for which the science is sufficiently mature and data are available torecommend refinement or development of inventory guidance– Where such refinement or development on the basis of this new information would
lead to a noticeable improvement to inventory guidance– Specific type of refinement or updating that is needed for those categories– How these refinements could be made (i.e., suggested possible ways to addressissues)• Agreed on a number of issues that need to be addressed in the future TFI work

Expert Meetings for Technical Assessment: Major Recommendations (1)• Some of the issues need to be addressed by producing a new Methodology
Report(s). It is necessary to–––develop new or additional guidance on sources and/or gases that are notcovered by the 2006 IPCC Guidelines (e.g., GHG emissions from unconventional
oil and gas production, GHG emissions from hydrogen production, N2O
emissions from industrial wastewater treatment process)refine guidance to reflect significant scientific or technical developments since the2006 IPCC Guidelines were completed (e.g., guidance on land representation
linking land classification system and digital maps)
update or add default data of emission factors and other parameters for somecategories (e.g., fugitive emissions from oil and gas, substitutes for ozone
depleting substances used for refrigeration and air conditioning, N2O emissions
from wastewater treatment, values for litter and deadwood, biomass expansion
factors (BEF)/biomass conversion and expansion factors (BCEF), direct/indirect
N2O emissions from managed soils)

Expert Meetings for Technical Assessment: Major Recommendations (2)• Some other issues can be addressed by utilizing other means (IPCCSupporting Materials) including the EFDB, TFI’s webpage on Frequently Asked
Questions (FAQs) and technical bulletins or expert meeting reports• Refinements by EFDB and FAQs can start as soon as practicable• Some issues require further consideration by relevant experts before starting
refinements (e.g., identification of unknown sources of perfluorocarbons (PFCs),
updating of some emission factors/parameters and methodological clarificationin Agriculture sector )• There are several cross-sectoral issues that need to be considered• Many participants were of the view that there should be a mechanism to update
Tier 1 (default) data of emission factors and other parameters more frequentlyTechnical Assessment of IPCC Inventory Guidelines (3)• The 27th Session of Bureau of TFI (TFB27) held on 16-18 November
2015, Hayama, Japan–

discussed the future TFI work plan taking into consideration the recommendations
from the expert meetings• Two expert meetings for the Technical Assessment to be held in April
2016––To follow up on issues identified at the two expert meetings held in 2015
To consider cross-sectoral issues covering the issues identified throughthe on-line questionnaire survey as well as those identified at the twoexpert meetings held in 2015

Thank you
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