The IPCC Guidance and the New Climate
Regime
IPCC TFI side event
Friday, 7 December
COP 24, Katowice

Transparency Framework
Mitigation, Data and Analysis Programme
UNFCCC secretariat

Outline

IPCC guidelines and the transparency arrangements under the Convention and Kyoto Protocol

IPCC guidance on GHG inventories and the Paris Agreement

The 2019 Refinement and Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement

The 2019 IPCC Refinement: Possible further stepsConclusion

IPCC guidelines and the transparency arrangements under theConvention and Kyoto Protocol• The IPCC guidelines serve as the basis for reporting of GHG inventories
by both Annex I and non-Annex I country Parties under the Convention:o Annex I country Parties are required to use the 2006 IPCC Guidelines
o Non-Annex I Parties are required to use the Revised 1996 IPCC
Guidelines and are encouraged to use the Good Practice Guidance• Annex I Parties to the Kyoto Protocol are required to use the IPCC
guidance to prepare the supplementary information on LULUCF (KPSupplement)Article 13: Transparency Framework is in the heart of the Paris Agreement

Article 4 – mitigation/nationally determined contribution; Article 7 – adaptation; Article 9 – finance;
Article 10 – technology development and transfer; Article 11 – capacity-building; Article 14 – global
stocktake and Article 6

IPCC guidance on GHG inventories and the Paris Agreement• Parties are required to use the IPCC good practice methodologies for thepreparation of the national inventory report of anthropogenic emissions bysources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases (Art. 13.7.a)• The IPCC methodological guidance on GHG inventories are expected tobe key in reporting the information necessary to track progress made in
implementing and achieving the nationally determined contributions
under Article 4 (Art. 13.7.b), e.g.:o Contribution from the LULUCF sectoro Emissions and removals covered by the indicators relevant to NDCs

The 2019 Refinement and Transparency Framework under theParis Agreement• The 2019 Refinement is aimed at improving the transparency, accuracy,completeness, comparability and consistency (TACCC) of GHG inventories,
through refinements based on scientific and other technical advances (e.g.
supplementary methodologies; updated default values; clarification orelaboration of 2006 IPCC Guidelines)• This could facilitate the implementation of the Paris Agreement, including by:o Building mutual trust and confidence and promoting the effective
implementation of the Paris Agreement consistent with the aim of theTransparency Framework (Art. 13.1)
o Promoting environmental integrity and TACCC, and ensuring theavoidance of double counting in accounting for Parties’ anthropogenicemissions and removals corresponding to their NDCs (Article 4.13)
o Providing the best available scientific information for the global stocktake
to assess the collective progress towards achieving the purpose of ParisAgreement and its long-term goals (Art. 14.1)

The 2019 IPCC Refinement: Possible further steps• Parties could agree on using a refinement of the IPCC guidelines once
agreed upon by the CMA, in relation to the modalities, procedures andguidelines for the transparency framework for action and support to be agreed
in Katowice• Although there is no such current mandate, once the 2019 Refinement isadopted by the IPCC, a Party or a group of Parties, could possibly makea request to the CMA for the consideration for its adoption for reporting
under the Paris Agreement (possibly in the second half of 2019)

Conclusions• IPCC guidelines have served as the basis for the reporting of national
GHG inventories under the Convention and the KP and will underpin thereporting of the GHG inventory-related information under the Transparency
Framework of the Paris Agreement• The 2019 Refinement could greatly facilitate the implementation of theParis Agreement by enhancing the TACCC of the GHG inventory-related
information reported under the Paris Agreement• In relation to the MPGs for the Transparency Framework, Parties could
agree on using a refinement of the IPCC guidelines once agreed uponby the CMA

Thank you