Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Introduction

IPCC Expert Meeting:
Application of 2006 IPCC Guidelines to Other Areas

1 July 2014, Sofia, Bulgaria
Kiyoto Tanabe, IPCC TFI TSU

- Background- Objectives of this meeting- Three major topics- Organisation of this meeting- Expected outcome of this meeting

Background (1)• The IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories are internationally-agreed methodologies toestimate and report annual anthropogenic emissions &removals of GHG within a national territory.
• In reality, methodological guidance in the IPCCGuidelines are also frequently used to estimate GHG
emissions/removals in various GHG reporting andmitigation endeavours– at scales other than national scale; and/or– on a non-annual basis.

Background (2)• TFI TSU has been receiving many relevant questions.
Some of them are included in the FAQ website. e.g.:– Q1-4-2. Where can we find methodological guidance for compilation of
GHG inventory at a municipality level? Can the IPCC Guidelines beused for municipality GHG inventory?
Answer: Yes, we believe the 2006 IPCC Guidelines … are useful foranyone who wishes to estimate GHG emissions/removals. You will need
to be careful with differences between reporting requirements forcountries and those for cities,… You may also need to consider
boundary issues and availability of activity data at the municipality level.

• However, application of IPCC Guidelines to other areas
has not been actively promoted or considered by theIPCC TFI so far.

Background (3)• Promoting correct use of IPCC Guidelines in various
other areas is getting more and more important:– to ensure better consistency between national GHG
inventories and estimates of GHG emissions/removals madefor other purposes; and– to address potential issues due to double-counting,omissions and incorrect attribution, leakage, etc.

• TFI may benefit from experiences gained in existing
GHG estimation/reporting programmes in various otherareas so as to provide additional useful guidance tonational inventory compilers.

Objectives of this meeting• To review examples of application of IPCC Guidelines
to areas other than preparation of national GHG
inventories;• To identify issues to be considered and any need for
additional guidance in application of the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines to areas other than preparation of national
GHG inventories; and• To consider elements/practices in various existing
GHG estimation/reporting programmes that may serveas additional useful guidance to national inventory
compilers.

Three major topics• Three major topics will be discussed in this meeting.
1. Estimation of GHG emissions/removals in sub-national/corporate/project level reporting and performancestandard-setting, on non-annual basis, highlighting issues(e.g., required assumptions, limitations or precautions) andgood practices in application of 2006 IPCC Guidelines;
2. Estimation of mitigation potential/carbon footprint/
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), highlighting issues and goodpractices in application of 2006 IPCC Guidelines; and3. Estimation of GHG emissions/removals in mitigation
projects and programmes, highlighting issues and goodpractices in application of 2006 IPCC Guidelines.

Organisation of this meeting• Day 1 & Day 2 morning: Plenary Session– Will feature presentations on experiences in applying theIPCC Guidelines to one or more of the other major areas.

• Day 2 afternoon & Day 3 morning: BOG Session– Three break-out groups will discuss each of the three topics.
• BOG1: Topic 1 (sub-national/corporate/project level reporting and performancestandard-setting, on non-annual basis)• BOG2: Topic 2 (mitigation potential, carbon footprint, LCA)
• BOG3: Topic 3 (mitigation projects and programmes)• Day 3 afternoon: Plenary Session– BOG reports, discussion on outstanding issues andfurther work required, and wrap-up.

Expected outcome of this meeting• May be presented as additional guidance/advice to theusers of 2006 IPCC Guidelines in the form of– a meeting report; and/or– other material such as FAQs on the TFI website.

• This additional guidance could further be incorporated
into the future revision of the IPCC Guidelines.
• Identification of outstanding issues and further workrequired to enhance the utility of future IPCC
Guidelines is expected.

Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas InventoriesБлагодаря.
Thank you.