Our ref.: 5915-12/IPCC/TFIAnnexes: 2To designated IPCC Focal Points andMinistries of Foreign Affairs(if no focal point has been designated)

Geneva, 30 January 2012
Sir/Madam,I have the honour of inviting you to nominate experts to participate in the scoping meeting to be heldin April 2012, to consider the need to update the supplementary guidance to the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
The Conference of Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol at its seventhsession (CMP7)1 invited IPCC to review and, if necessary, update the guidance given in Chapter 4of the GPG LULUCF. Paragraph 8 of the decision -/CMP.7 on LULUCF:
Invites the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to review and, if necessary,
update supplementary methodologies for estimating anthropogenic greenhouse gas
emissions by sources and removals by sinks resulting from land use, land-use
change and forestry activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4, of the Kyoto
Protocol, related to the annex to this decision, on the basis of, inter alia, chapter 4 ofits Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry;
The full text of the LULUCF decision is attached, including the annex.
Following this request, the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) proposes toconvene an expert meeting to review chapter 4 of the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, LandUse Change and Forestry (GPG LULUCF) and to consider the need for any supplementary
methodologies for estimating emissions and removals from activities outlined in Article 3.3 and 3.4of the Kyoto Protocol, including the consideration of all the elements of decision -/CMP.7. Ifnecessary, following the expert meeting, the TFI will propose a work programme for considerationby the 35th Session of the Panel. While the meeting will base its deliberations on the 2006 IPCCGuidelines and Chapter 4 of the GPG LULUCF, there is no intention to propose revisions orchanges to the guidance already contained in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.
Although the invitation to IPCC does not clearly specify the time frame for the IPCC to respond,
paragraph 9 of the decision -/CMP.7:
Requests the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice to consider,following the completion of methodological work by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change outlined in paragraph 8 above, any supplementary methodologies
related to the annex to this decision, with a view to forwarding a draft decision on thismatter to the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to theKyoto Protocol for adoption at its tenth session.

1 Meeting in Durban, 28 Nov-9 Dec 2011

CMP10 will be held towards the end of 2014, and if the IPCC decides to develop a SupplementaryGuidance, it would be preferable to finalise the report, by the fortieth session of SBSTA (June 2014)
in order to provide SBSTA the time to consider it and forward a draft decision to CMP10.
In your nominations, please specify the area(s) of expertise of the nominee. Relevant expertise
includes, for example, preparation of greenhouse gas inventories for LULUCF, experience with thesupplementary methods set out in Chapter 4 of the Good Practice Guidance 2003, and GHG
inventory review for LULUCF.
Please provide the full contact information (address/affiliation/phone/fax/e-mail) and Curriculum
Vitae, using the attached nomination form (Annex 2). The electronic file is available on<http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp>. Nominations should be sent no later than 29 February 2012preferably by e-mail to:
Technical Support Unit
IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
c/o Institute for Global Environmental Strategies
2108-11, Kamiyamaguchi, Hayama, Kanagawa
240-0115 Japan
Email nggip-tsu@iges.or.jp
Fax+81 46 855 3808
Phone +81 46 855 3750
Being fully intergovernmental, it has been the practice in IPCC for the Governments in thedeveloped world to support their respective Coordinating Lead Authors/Lead Authors/Review
Editors for participation in the preparation of the chapters/sections of IPCC reports. Such support
extends to the travel and subsistence of Coordinating Lead Authors/Lead Authors/Review Editors toattend meetings of Lead Authors and other relevant meetings such as the Sessions of the IPCC
Working Groups and of the IPCC. The travel and subsistence of the Coordinating LeadAuthors/Lead Authors/Review Editors from the developing countries and countries with economies
in transition to attend the meetings of Lead Authors and other relevant meetings will be borne out ofthe IPCC Trust Fund.
Based on the submissions received the Task Force Bureau for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories (TFB) will prepare the list of participants. The IPCC Panel will be informed about the listas well as the outcome of the meeting at its next session.
I thank you in advance for your consideration of this matter.
A copy of this letter is being sent to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, IPCC Contact Point(s), thePermanent Representative with WMO and Focal Point(s) of UNEP of your country for information.

Yours sincerely,Renate Christ
Secretary of the IPCC