UNFCCC Secretariat cooperation with IPCC - Task Force on
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

IPCC Side Event
5 December 2019
Ana Pejović, Programme Officer, Training and Certification Unit
Vitor Gois Ferreira, Team Lead, GHG Inventories unit
UNFCCC Secretariat, Mitigation Data and Analysis ProgrammeScope of the cooperation with IPCC TFIRegional training workshops on sustainable national
greenhouse gas inventory management systems andthe use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Enhancement of the software - the completion of the IPCC
Inventory Software according to guidance provided in the2006 IPCC Guidelines
IPCC Emission Factor Database2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Regional training workshops on sustainable national greenhouse gas
inventory management systems andthe use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
At its forty-second session, the Subsidiary Body for Implementation noted therequests developing countries for further technical support aimed at
improving their domestic capacity to facilitate continuity in meeting reporting
requirements through training on the use of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories and building sustainable national GHG inventory management
systems, and understanding and applying best practices relevant to the setting
up of domestic MRV systems.

Regional training workshops on sustainable national greenhouse gas
inventory management systems andthe use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Three regional training workshops on sustainable national GHG
inventory management systems and the use of the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines for the following regions:• Africa,• Latin America and the Caribbean, and• Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe.

Regional training workshops on sustainable national greenhouse gas
inventory management systems andthe use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories• Designed to cover the key role of a national GHG inventory management
system including IA and the process of developing such a system, and• Use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines in preparing national GHG inventories.
• An interactive training approach is used, including presentations,discussions, exercises using realistic data sets and hands-on spreadsheets
and software utilization;• Starting from this year - Uncertainty analysis using the IPCC Inventory
Software and the @RISK tool;• Conducted by Members of the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC Task
Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories,

Regional training workshops on sustainable national greenhouse gas
inventory management systems andthe use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories

In 2018 and 2019 the workshops gather around 315 participants
involved in GHG inventory management systems and addressed key
elements required to ensure the sustainability of such systems as wellas general guidance and reporting, sector-specific methodologies - theEnergy, IPPU, AFOLU and Waste sectors and hands-on training on theIPCC inventory software.

Enhancement of the software - the completion of the IPCC Inventory
Software according to guidance provided in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines
The completion of the IPCC Inventory Software, so that any countries
applying any of the methodological tiers and approaches contained in
the 2006 IPCC Guidelines can potentially use it for its reporting
obligations under the Paris Agreement, Article 13.7(a) as well asDecision 18/CMA.1 (paragraph 20 in its annex).

Enhancement of the software - the completion of the IPCC Inventory
Software according to guidance provided in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines• Providing full support for Tier 2 calculation methods in IPPU sector;• Extending reporting tables:• Implementing Summary reporting table to report for the whole time series in CO2-eq;• Export all reporting tables to XML format (background, sectoral, summary);• Extending handling of uncertainties;• Extending key category analysis to Approach 2;• Extending Multilanguage support to all 6 UN languages;• Extended support to users;• AFOLU Approach 3 capacity;• Time for development is 1 year.

IPCC Emission Factor Database

The EFBD is referred to in the UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories for Annex I
Parties. In particular, there is a explicit reference to this database in the reporting guidelines (para12 in the annex of decision 24/CP.19)
Parties could use EFs and parameters provided in the IPCC EFDB, where available. This, asprovided they demonstrate these parameters are appropriate in the specific specific national
circumstances and are more accurate than the default data provided in the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines
Regarding reviews of annual submissions, review experts have to consider the provision in theEF database when those are used in Parties’ submissions. In addition, EFs and parameters could
be used in the adjustment process under the KP, as recommended international sources
Experienced review officers from the UNFCCC secretariat attend meetings of the IPCC meeting
database (last one in Osaka, Japan, EFDB 17), as members of the editorial board

2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
The UNFCCC secretariat’s GHG inventories review was invited to attend meetings
for the elaboration of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines fornational greenhouse gas inventories, including the scoping (Minsk, 2016) and leadauthor meetings (Victoria Falls, 2017, Cairns, 2018 and Rome, 2018). It also
participated in the expert meetings (Geneva, São Paulo and Wollongong) for
technical assessment of the IPCC Inventory Guidelines prior to the elaboration
phase
The Paris Agreement’s Modalities, procedures and guidelines (MPGs) for thetransparency framework includes a reference to refinements to the 2006
Guidelines in para 20 of the annex to decision 18/CMA.1“Each Party shall use the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, and shall use any subsequentversion or refinement of the IPCC guidelines agreed upon by the CMA”

Thank you !

UNFCCC Secretariat, Mitigation Data and Analysis Programme