Appendix 2 of the Report of the 1st Meeting

EFDB Editorial Board

Appendix 2: Agenda of the Meeting
IPCC EMISSION FACTOR DATABASE
1st Meeting of the Editorial Board
HAYAMA, JAPAN, 28 - 30 JANUARY, 2003
OBJECTIVES:yTo share understanding of the objectives, responsibility and role of the EFDB
Editorial Board and relevant procedures and working practises
yTo consider the criteria to be used in assessment of proposals by data providers inorder to ensure the integrity and scientific soundness of the EFDByTo consider how to ensure consistency of the assessment criteria over time andbetween Editorial Co-ordinators and Sector Experts
yTo consider good strategies for population of the EFDBPARTICIPANTS: Members of the IPCC EFDB Editorial Board, Members of the Steering Group ofthe IPCC project on Establishment of a Database on Greenhouse Gas Emission
Factors
LOCATION:

Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES)
2108-11, Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Miura, Kanagawa, 240-0115 Japan

Tel: 81 46 855 3750 Fax: 81 46 855 3808
PRODUCTS:

A meeting report which contains criteria to be used in assessment of proposals bydata providers in order to ensure the integrity and scientific soundness of the EFDBORGANISERS: Technical Support Unit of the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Programme, and IGES

AGENDA
Tuesday, 28 January
10:00 – 10:30

Registration
Opening Session

10:30 – 11:00

Agenda 1

11:00 – 11:10

Agenda 2

Opening of the meeting- Opening Remarks (by Co-chair of the IPCC Task Force on Inventory)- Self-introduction (by every participant)
Election/confirmation of Office Bearers

11:10 – 11:20

Agenda 3

Adoption of the agenda (by Board Co-chair)

11:20 – 11:35

Coffee BreakSession 1 (Plenary session)
11:35 – 12:10

Agenda 4

12:10 – 12:40

Agenda 5

Introductory presentations (by the TSU)
- Background of the EFDB project- Modalities and procedures to manage and populate the EFDB including
objectives, responsibility and role of the EFDB Editorial Board- Objectives and expected outputs of this meeting
Demonstration of the EFDB (by the TSU)
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12:40 – 14:00

Lunch break

Session 1 (Plenary session, Continuation)
14:00 – 15:00

Agenda 6

15:00 – 15:40

Agenda 7

Discussion on the modalities and procedures to manage and populate thedatabaseDiscussion on general aspects of criteria to be used in assessment ofproposals by data providers

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 17:30

Discussion on general aspects of criteria to be used in assessment ofproposals by data providers (Continuation)

18.15 -Reception

Wednesday, 29 January
Session 2 (Breakout group session)
9:30 – 9:45

Agenda 8.1

Sectoral discussion- Guidance to breakout group discussion

9:45 – 11:00- Breakout Group Discussion on the criteria to be used in assessment ofproposed data for each sector (including development of a check sheet,elaboration of the list of “property” information that should accompany
the data records, etc)
Breakout Group 1 (BOG1) on Energy sector
Breakout Group 2 (BOG2) on Industrial sector
Breakout Group 3 (BOG3) on Agriculture sector
Breakout Group 4 (BOG4) on Land-Use Change and Forestry sector
Breakout Group 5 (BOG5) on Waste sector

11:00 – 11:20

Coffee break

11:20 – 12:30

Breakout Group Discussion (continuation)

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch break

Session 3 (Plenary session)
14:00 – 15:30

Agenda 9.1

Presentation of the outcomes of breakout group discussions
Q&A, and discussion

15:30 – 15:50

Coffee BreakSession 4 (Breakout group session)
15:50 – 18:00

Agenda 8.2

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Thursday, 30 January
Session 5 (Plenary session)
9:30 – 11:00

Agenda 9.2

Presentation of the outcomes of breakout group discussions
Q&A, and discussion
Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:20
11:20 – 12:10

Agenda 10Discussion on good strategies for population of the EFDB

Closing Session
12:10– 12:30

Agenda 11

Closing of the meeting- Adoption of the conclusions of the meeting- Wrap-up of the meeting-3 -