IPCC TFI Side Event

Wetlands & Software:
IPCC TFI Developments
8th June 2011,
2011 BonnSide Event today:• 2013 Supplement to 2006 Inventory
Guidelines: Wetlands– SBSTA Invitations and IPCC responses– Chapter Outline– A User’s Perspective• Software for 2006 GLs• EFDB

IPCC’s Response
pto SBSTA
Invitations:Preparation of 2013
Supplement to the 2006 IPCC
Inventory Guidelines: Wetlands
Taka Hiraishi,
Co-chair, IPCC Task Force on
National Greenhouse Gas
I
Inventories
i (TFI)SBSTA 32 Invitation and IPCC Expert Meeting• The SBSTA 32, as part of its consideration of the use of the2006 IPCC Guidelines,, invited the IPCC “to organizeganexpert meeting to explore the need and ways to clarify
methodological issues related to reporting on HWP, wetlands
and Soil N2O.
• In response to this, an IPCC Expert meeting on HWP, Soil
N2O andd Wetlands
W tl d was hheld
ld ini OOctobert b 2010
2010, whichhi hconsidered the need for additional guidance on them in order
to fill gaps in the 2006 Inventory Guidelines.
Guidelines

IPCC Expert Meeting concluded: (1)• The meeting ... in general considered that the methodologicaladvice contained in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines still reflects the latest
science... Since the 2006 IPCC Guidelines were completed muchnew scientific information is now available about various wetlands
that enable emissions and removals to be estimated from wetland
restoration and rewetting especially for peatlands. The meeting
recommended that the IPCC provide additional methodological
guidelines
id li
ffor ththe rewetting
tti andd restorationt ti off peatland;tl d emissions
i ifrom fires, ditches and waterborne carbon; and constructedwetlands for waste water disposal, to fill ggaps in the existing
gguidelines.”

IPCC Expert Meeting concluded: (2)• TheTh meetingti alsol notedt d ththe availability
il bilit off new iinformation
fti
across climate zones for wetlands and drainage addressedin other land use chapters and recommended developing
country and region specific EFs from this information.

SBSTA 33 Conclusions (Cancun, 2010)• “The SBSTA took note of the summary of the co-chairs of the IPCC
expertt meeting
ti on harvested
ht d woodd products,d t wetlands
tl d andd N2Oemissions from soils. Noting that science has developed in someareas with regard to wetlands, the SBSTA invited the IPCC toundertake further methodological work on wetlands, focusing on
the rewetting and restoration of peatland, with a view to filling in
the gaps in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories … in these areas and to complete this work for thethirty-ninth session of the SBSTA.” (i.e., in 2013)

IPCC Scoping meeting & Plenary Decision
to produce 2013 Supplement• In response to this SBSTA invitation,invitation and utilising thecontingency funds in the 2011 budget, the “IPCC
Expert Meeting on Scoping Additional Guidance onWetlands” was held at the WMO in Geneva,
Switzerland from 30th March to 1st April, 2011.
• This meeting produced a draft Terms of Reference(ToR), including annotated chapter outline.
• The IPCC at its 33rd Session in Abu Dhabi (10th -13thMay 2011) decided to produce the “2013 Supplementt thetoth 2006 IPCC Guidelines
G id liforf National
N ti l Greenhouse
GhGas Inventories: Wetlands”.

Work has started!
• On 1st June, IPCC issued its formal letter of invitation ofauthor nominations to its member Governments andinternational organizations – the deadline is 30th June.
• In accordance with the current IPCC Principles andProcedures, there will be four authors meetings and two
IPCC Reviews before the final Government consideration.
• This work will abide by the IPCC Principles andProcedures, including those new rules that may beadopted by the IPCC Plenary in the course of the 2013
Supplement. The guidance to authors will be kept updated
on the IPCC NGGIP webpage
http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/home/wetlands.html