Interoperability between the IPCC Inventory
Software and the UNFCCC ETF Reporting Tool
IPCC TFI TSU
UNFCCC COP28
December 2023

Outline Background What is interoperability and why is it
important?
 Using the IPCC Inventory Software tohelp meet UNFCCC ETF reporting The road ahead Demonstration

BackgroundBy the end of next year (31 December 2024), countries will submit their
National GHG Inventory (NGHGI) in the first biennial transparency report(BTR) consisting of a narrative document and reporting tables/ formats.
Decision 5/CMA.3 mandates the UNFCCC to develop reporting tools for theelectronic reporting of the tables and formats, including common reportingtables (CRT) for GHG inventory.
Decision 5/CMA.3 requests the UNFCCC secretariat to facilitate
interoperability between the reporting tool and the IPCC Inventory Softwareand invites the IPCC to participate in this effort.

Interoperability: What it is and why it is important?
Interoperability: “The ability of computer systems or software to exchange and make use ofinformation” -Oxford Dictionary
 In practice, the goal is to enable a country to use the IPCC Inventory Software to estimateits GHG emissions and removals in accordance with good practice in the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines and generate a file that could be received and read by the UNFCCC ETF reporting
tool to facilitate reporting of NGHGI under the Paris Agreement.
 IPCC Inventory Software becomes a central component of a Party’s institutionalarrangements.
Promotingconsistency withIPCC Guidelines

Organizing
framework for datacollection among
national entities

Minimizing
calculation andreporting error

Reducing reporting
burdenSteps of Interoperability

Step 1: Prepare GHG Inventory
Enter activity data, emission factors
and other parameters, using yourselected IPCC tier(s) for eachcategory. The Software contains
tools to help facilitate data entry(e.g: Fuel Manager and “TimeSeries Data Entry”) . Activity data,emissions (and some parameters)
will be transferred to the UNFCCCETF Reporting Tool.

Repeat for all
categories that occur
in your country

Step 2: Visualize & Quality Control Common Reporting Tables

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5.

Access CRT interface in Main Menu under “Export/Import”
Select “New CRT Data Set”
Name the CRT data set to be generated
Select the year(s) for export to CRTFeed worksheet data into CRT visualized in Software

Step 2: Visualize & Quality Control Common Reporting Tables

Review Values

Checks done for all tables / all years

Guidance available(CRT footnotes, andIPCC Inventory
Software notes)

Step 2: Visualize & Quality Control Common Reporting Tables
Add comments,
explanatory information
for NE / IE / FX anddocumentation box.

Right click any
cell and select“Edit”.
If value is in cell,
you can add
comments.

Some user tips

If “IE”, “NE” or“FX” is in cell you
shall provide ajustificationStep 2: Visualize & Quality Control Common Reporting Tables

Right click any
cell with “FX”
and select “Edit”.
User can enter
information tocomplete“Flex_Summary”
CRT tableStep 2: Visualize & Quality Control Common Reporting Tables

Right click on any
blue cell.
User can enter
information on
method and EF
applied to complete
CRT Summary 3

Step 3: Generate JSON file
1. Select “Generate JSON”
2. Select years you want touse for UNFCCC
reporting (Note, if a country

applies flexibility, it may choose
to include years in Software, but
exclude from JSON file for ETF
Reporting tool)

3. Select “OK” to generate
JSON
4. The JSON file can be
uploaded to ETF
Reporting Tool

Step 4: Import IPCC JSON file into ETF Reporting tool
1. Select ‘Upload a file”
2. Drag and drop or upload
JSON file from previous step
3. You will be prompted to enter
version settings:-Submission year
-For developing countries, if
you are applying flexibilities
for time series/latest year
-Sector-specific selections(e.g., fuels, NCV/GCV,Option A/B for cattle, HWP
options)

Step 5: Quality Control Data Entry
Use of the IPCC JSON file is a means ofdata input into the ETF Reporting Tool.
Users can check all data input grids andreporting tables in the ETF ReportingTool.
Users should quality control theirimported IPCC data prior to submission.
Note: The implied emission factors will
be calculated here; they were not shownin the IPCC Inventory Software

Step 6: Submit GHG Inventory to UNFCCC ….and then start
preparing for next submission
Remember: The ETF Reporting tool is the official
tool for submission of data to the UNFCCC to meet
reporting obligations under the Paris Agreement.
And…with the inventory you have created in theIPCC Inventory Software, you are well prepared tobuild on it for your next BTR GHG inventory
submission.
…

Thus… helping build a sustainable GHG inventory
system.

Support Resources Available
o Description of functionalities
in IPCC Inventory Software toprepare data for generation ofJSON file for use by UNFCCC
electronic reporting tool.
https://www.ipccnggip.iges.or.jp/software/index.html

The Road Ahead Multiple releases between now and June 2024, are expected Countries actively preparing for their first BTR submission areencouraged to use the IPCC Inventory Software

November2023

Released version 2.89 of IPCC
Inventory Software (continuetesting functionsof interoperability) The features shown today are ready for the Energy, Waste and Agriculture
sectors
 We expect LULUCF to be available next, followed by IPPU

 Learn more about IPCC Inventory Software and download the latest
version:Multiple updated releases ofIPCC Inventory Software

https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/software/index.html
 Please continue to support us through testing and reporting your findings
to ipcc-software@iges.or.jp
June 2024Aim for final version of CRT:
interoperable with IPCC
Inventory Software

Thank you
https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/index.html