EXPERIENCE OF CHILE WITH THE IPCC 2006
GUIDELINESJOSÉ ANTONIO PRADOMINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE
ADVISER ON FOREST RELATED ISSUES.

2POSITION• Chile has elaborated its last 2 GHG Inventories using theIPCC 2006 Guidelines• 1990-2010 series, included in the 1st BUR submitted tothe UNFCCC (December 10th, 2014)• 1990-2013 series will be included in the 2nd BUR (2016)

and in the 3rd National Communication• Previously, Chile worked with the 1994 revised guidelines

plus 2000 and 2003 GPGs
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WHY THIS DECISION TO MOVE TO 2006 GUIDELINES?
• Mainly based on AFOLU sector.
• Existence of activity data and factor emissions that allow

to move to tier 2.
• Catastro Nacional de la Vegetación (includes land use changes)• Accurate information on forest fires• National Forest Inventory, that includes information on several

carbon pools.
• Improved information on emissions from agriculture• Challenge to advance towards a more precise GHG

Inventory
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GENERAL FINDINGS FROM USING THE 2006
GUIDELINES• More friendly and easy- to-use (only one volume ofinstructions instead of three ones)• Do not not necessarily demand different or new activity

data (statistics or parametric) except for the newcategories• More realistic/updated emission factors and parametricactivity data (based on more recent research)• Improved confidence in the quality of estimates.
• Software useful for NAI parties to report following theUNFCCC reporting guidelines
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5AFOLU SECTOR• AFOLU is the biggest and most complex sector to beelaborated (producing unbalance in resources assignment)• With the AFOLU concept Agriculture disappears as anindividual sector. Many see this as a disadvantage.
• Links of Agriculture with LULUCF are much better

consolidated and integrated• Text gives more conceptual information than the former

guidelines; thus, easier to be followed by non-specializedusers

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6AFOLU SECTOR• New calculation equations in some categories lead tomore precise and realistic GEI emissions or captures(e.g. N2O emissions from croplands)• Allow for a better accounting in C storage/flows due tochanges in soil/plants/animals management (e.g. areas
worked under non-tillage systems)• Chilean AFOLU sector was elaborated as the sum of the15 administrative regions. The IPCC software cannot be
used under this circumstances

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ENERGY, IPPU AND WASTE SECTORS• There were no major difficulties in using the 2006

Guidelines• Default methods and data facilitated the estimation ofemissions when there was not specific country
information.
• IPCC software helped in estimating emissions for these3 sectors, especially the Energy sector. They werecalculated at national level.

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HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CHILEAN GHG INVENTORY
Chile’s NGHGInv: GHG emissions and removals trend by sector, 1990–2010 series
Total GHG emissions:
91,6 MtCO2eq, increasing an 83,5%
since 1990, highlighting the growthof the emissions by electricity
generation and transport

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MtCO2eq

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Balance of GHG emissions andremovals in 2010:
41,7 MtCO2eq40200-20Total removals:
49,9 MtCO2eq, decreasing in an1,9% since 1990

-40-601. Energy
4. Agriculture
Total (incl. LULUCF)

2. Industrial processes
5. LULUCF

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