13th Meeting of the Editorial Board of the IPCC Emission Factor Database (EFDB)
18-20 November, 2015
Hayama, Japan

Summary of the meeting

The 13th meeting of Editorial Board (EB13) of the IPCC Emission Factor Database (EFDB) was held on 18-20 November 2015,
in Hayama, Japan. The main objective of the EB13 was to evaluate new and outstanding data proposals as well as discuss how
to enhance and improve the EFDB. The meeting was held in parallel with 11th and 12th Expert Meetings on Data for the EFDB
(Data Meetings) which were aimed to collect data for Energy and Industrial Processes and Product Use sectors, respectively.
The meetings were hosted by the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) and organised by the Technical Support
Unit (TSU) of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI). The lists of participants of the meetings areavailable at http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/meeting/meeting.html
There were more than 613 new and outstanding data including data voluntarily submitted by experts, data collected by TSU anddata provided by participants of the two Data Meetings for consideration by the Editorial Board. The data proposals wereconsidered by sectoral break-out groups and the results were reported at final plenary on Day 3. Total 367 data were acceptedby the Editorial Board for inclusion into the EFDB.
In addition, there were discussions on how to include the data from other databases and creating an “extra page” on EFDB
website to include data that do not meet the EFDB data acceptance criteria but considered useful to inventory compilers.
Currently, there are few links to other databases on the EFDB website and the Editorial Board agreed to add links to databasesaccepted by the Editorial Board following the procedure explained in the document on role and responsibilities of the Editorial
Board. With regard to the extra page, data and information to be included will be selected by the Editorial Board and a note will
be attached to each set of such data and information to explain why it could not be included in the EFDB and how it could beused. The extra page is to support inventory compilers in case no other data and information are available. Information on howto use the data and what to take into consideration will be attached to the data.
The meeting ended with the TFI Co-chair and EFDB Editorial Board Co-Chairs thanking all the participants for the successful
meeting and IGES/TFI TSU for hosting the meetings and excellent arrangements.

Agenda13:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 14:30

Registration
Welcome

14:30 - 17:30

Wednesday
18 November

IPCC TFI Co-chairs

Introduction of new members
AgendaMinutes of EB12
Presentations by TSU

Background to EFDB
Role and responsibilities of EB members
EFDB status: population and usage

Discussion
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09:00 - 12:30

Sectoral BOGs

Thursday19 November

Review of data proposals
EB members of Energy and IPPU sectors will join the 11th and 12th Data Meetings

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 18:00

Sectoral BOGs
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09:00 - 12:30
Friday20 November

Populating the EFDB (e.g. new data sources and techniques of data collection)
Data approval process
Improving the access to and usefulness of the EFDBOther issues

Sectoral BOGs
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12:30 - 14:00
14:00 - 17:00

Review of data proposals (continuation)
EB members of Energy and IPPU sectors will join the 11th and 12th Data Meetings

Review of data proposals (continuation)
EB members of Energy and IPPU sectors will join the 11th and 12th Data Meetings

Lunch
Final plenary discussion
Wrap-up and close of meeting