INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
N AT I O N AL G RE E N H O U S E G AS I N V E N T O R I E S P R O G R AM M EApproach
The overall aim is to include new information as much as possible.
An evolutionary approach, not a revolutionary approach, will be
adopted where significant changes to the guidelines are required,and where they can be technically justified.
Basis of New Guidelines
The basis of the “2006 IPCC Guidelines” will be formed byintegrating the existing 1996 IPCC Guidelines and the two IPCC
good practice guidance reports. To this will be added experienceand feedback from using the existing reports and feedback from theUNFCCC inventory reviews. Advances in science will also have tobe taken into account.
UNFCCC documents, starting withSBSTA/2003/Inf.10, have been carefully studied by authors, and will
be taken into account appropriately. The IPCC’s two new Special
Reports, i.e., “Safeguarding the ozone layer and the global climate
system: issues related to hydrofluorocarbons and perfluorocarbons”
and “Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage” will also serve as inputsto the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.
The task of producing revised emission inventory guidelines
presents a number of challenges and issues and some of these will
be discussed during this meeting.
PanelFacilitators
Panellists

UNEPWMO

Taka Hiraishi
Thelma Krug
Simon Eggleston
William Agyemang-Bonsu
N.H. Ravindranath
Riitta Pipatti
Ken Skog
Dario Gomez

Jim Penman

Co-chairs of the IPCC Task
Force for Inventories
Technical Support Unit, IPCC
Task Force for Inventories
Environmental Protection
Agency, Ghana
Indian Institute of Science
VTT Processes, Finland
US Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Comisión Nacional de Energía
Atómica (Atomic Energy
Commission of Argentina)
Department for Environment,
Food & Rural Affairs, UK

COP10 Side Event

2006 IPCC Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories
Wednesday, 8 December, 6-8 pm
Location:

La Rural: Cardón
The existing IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories date back to 1996 with additional good practiceguidance in 2000 and 2003. These guidelines are used byparties in their reporting to the convention. SBSTA 17 asked
the IPCC to revise these guidelines and this work is now
underway with the finished guidelines planned to be ready in2006.
This event presents progress to date on the new 2006
guidelines. It highlights areas and issues being addressed in
the new guidelines that may be of interest to COP participants.
The writing of the First Order Draft is now underway aiming for
the Expert Review to take place between late February andearly April, 2005. We wish to describe the issues confronting
the authors and indicate their proposed solutions and give
COP participants the opportunity to question a few of theauthors.
Technical Support Unit, IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme,
IGES, 2108-11 Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa, 240-0115, JAPAN
Tel: +81 46 855 3751
Fax: +81 46 855 3808
http//www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp

AGENDABACKGROUND
1) Introduction (TFB Co-chairs)
Structure2) Progress of the Guidelines (Simon Eggleston, Head TSU)
Outline, work plan and progress or work3) Specific Issues:a) Industrial Processes and Product Use, (WilliamAgyemang-Bonsu, Ghana)
New gases and sources and other issues related toindustrial processes and product use.
b) Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use(Ravindranath N.H., India)

The 2006 Guidelines will be composed of five volumes: CrossCutting Issues; Energy, Industrial Process and Product Use;
Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use; and Waste. The Good
Practice Guidance will be fully integrated into all these volumes.

Work plan
The work plan is illustrated below. So far the IPCC has held 5authors meetings and over 230 international experts are now
drafting the 2006 Guidelines,

Issues arising from the integration of the Agriculture sector
and the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry sector.

c) Waste, (Riitta Pipatti, Finland)
Development of a simple first order decay model andother challenges.

d) Harvested Wood Products (HWP), (Ken Skog, US)
Development of methods that can be used to estimate
emissions by any of the proposed approaches to HWP –approach neutral methods.

e) Sectoral & Reference Approach for Energy – (DarioGomez, Argentina)

Work plan for the new 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Emission Inventories
Jul 04
IPPU
Washington
Jun 04
AFOLU
Mauritius
May 04
CC &CLA
Oslo

Nov 04
Waste
CanadaSep 04
EnergyArushaJan 05FirstOrderDraft

Dec 05
FinalDraft

Jun 05
ProduceSecond Order Draft

May 06
SUBSTA24
Apr 06IPCC Approval

Role of reference approach, sectoral good practicemethods and other issuesf) Indirect N2O and Direct/Indirect CO2 (Jim Penman,UK)
Methods and solutions to indirect N2O emissions fromemissions of NOx and NH3. Improved reporting ofDirect/Indirect CO2 emissions.

4) Panel Discussion (Chaired by Co-Chairs)

May 04 - Dec 04
Write First Order Draft

2004

Mar 05 - Apr 05
Expert Review

Sep 05 - Oct 05
Expert/Government
Review

2005

Mar 06
Government
Consideration

2006