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CD-REDD2Forest National GHG Inventories
Kick off meeting
Sandro Federici, Gea Galluzzi
Bonn27th May, 2010
Setting the context
REDD+ will be an instrument to award developing countries for mitigation actions
Common approach to monitoring, reporting and verifying results to ensure comparability in outcomes of different actions and/or different countries
Under the UNFCCC such an approach is based on the National System and the National GHG Inventory
Developing countries should become familiar with these instruments to ensure a prompt start of REDD+
Setting the context
The National System includes all institutional, legal and procedural arrangements made within a Party for monitoring and reporting purposes, in particular for:
production of estimates for the National GHG Inventory
reporting and archiving inventory information, aimed at ensuring the transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness and accuracy of National GHG Inventory
It collects data from the monitoring instruments (inputs) and elaborates it in the National GHG Inventory (outputs).
Setting the context
The National GHG Inventory is the instrument for calculating and reporting national sectoral GHG balances. (reporting)
To ensure equivalence among GHG balances of different countries and sectors, estimates reported in the Inventory have to comply with the five reporting principles of Transparency, Consistency, Comparability, Completeness, and Accuracy
Setting the context
Challenges:
Science and methodologies are continuously evolving National circumstances (including technical skills) are highly
variable in time and space
Therefore a standardized system aimed at high qualityestimates may:
be complex for currently available technical skills be unable to address specific circumstances be soon outdated be costly deliver POOR QUALITY data at HIGH COSTS
CDREDD approach
On the contrary
Building a national GHG inventory with a stepwise, learning by doing approach - based on IPCC guidelines – allows:
starting with current technical skills and data availability
gradually and continuously improving quality of estimates while technical skills are being further developed
This approach addresses different national circumstances in a cost-effective way
Why a NATIONAL inventory? To ensure permanence (through continuity of inventory
activities) To avoid accounting for mere displacement of emissions For coordination, consistency and continuous improvement of
inventory activities
Why follow UNFCCC guidelines? For ensuring application of the principles of estimating science:
transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness, accuracy
For consistency and comparability among national mitigation efforts (fundamental for rewarding REDD+ achievements either through a fund or a market mechanism)
CDREDD approach
Why follow IPCC guidelines?
To make GHG Inventories compliant with the 5 principles of estimating science
For a “learn by doing” approach and continuous improvement of methods, data and technical skills, thanks to:o Key category analysiso Uncertainty analysiso Tiered approach(+ Independent review based on UNFCCC guidelines)
To cover all possible national circumstances through a tiered approach
CDREDD approach
CD-REDD2 Programme
Scope of the programme
Build capacity on National GHG Inventory for the AFOLU sector with focus on forest related GHG fluxes (reporting)
Provide trained experts from developing countries for the UNFCCC inventory review process for the AFOLU sector (verification)
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Outputs Acquire knowledge on IPCC Guidelines
Decision-making autonomy
Institutional Arrangements for National Systems
Documentation and Category-by-Category Description
Key Category Analysis
Quality Assurance and Quality Control Measures
Inventory Archive System
Zero order draft of the National GHG Inventory for the
forest sector
National Inventory Improvement Plan
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Methodological Approach
output by output
evolutionary approach (progressively increasing quality and completeness)
based on land classification and stratification of data
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Output by outputPractical exercises to verify the learning progress will ensure the
achievement of each output before moving to the next
Evolutionary approachStart from Tier 1 and only forest-related GHG
emissions/removals, and then progressively:
increase in coverage (C pools and categories)
increase in complexity and (hopefully) quality
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Land classification and stratification
Start with IPCC land categories in order to identify and track land uses and land-use changes (each category having different methodologies for GHG estimation)
Stratify data within each land category to increase homogeneity in measures thereby reducing uncertainty
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Activities
Global
Regional
National
CD-REDD2 Programme
Global Activities 3 workshops to establish a common methodological
approach for the year’s activities and monitor results
WS1: National System, functions and process, followed by mail-based tests for verification of lessons learned
WS2: Data collection methodologies, review and update of activities in light of any new UNFCCC/IPCC decision/guidelines
WS3: Revision of the zero order draft of the National GHG Inventory for the forest sector and planning of potential improvements
Participation of delegates from all countries involved and experts from all agencies
Scheduled around the annual COP
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Regional Activities
one workshop and one training course (carried out together)
Basic elements and steps for the National GHG Inventory preparation process, followed by tests for verification of the lessons learned
Participation of delegates from target countries of the region
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National Activities
2 training courses per country
NA1: Training on methodologies contained in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for the AFOLU sector, assisted preparation of the Country Plan, followed by verification of lessons learned
Between the first and the second course, participants will be requested to collect available in-country data for the forest sector
NA2: Assisted application of methodologies to the national data for preparation of a zero-order draft of the National GHG Inventory for the forest sector. Review by UNFCCC reviewers
CD-REDD2 Programme
Material
relevant UNFCCC materials on National System and National GHG Inventory:
- Decision 19/CMP.1 on “Guidelines for national systems under Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Kyoto Protocol”
- Updated UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories following incorporation of the provisions of decision 14/CP.11 - FCCC/SBSTA/2006/9
- Annotated outline of the National Inventory Report
- Common Reporting Format tables for National GHG Inventories
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Material
2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventory:
- Volume 1
- Volume 4
- Glossary
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Lessons
National System:
- Role and responsibilities of involved entities;
- Strategy for data collection and selection;
- Quality Assurance (QA) activities including review procedures conducted by personnel not directly involved in the
inventory compilation/development process for verification;
- Archiving of data;
- Improvements;
- National GHG Inventory process (within a time cycle of 2 years);
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Lessons
National GHG Inventory general issues:
- Key Category analysis
- Uncertainty analysis
- Timeseries
- Description and documentation
- Quality Control (QC) activities, to measure and control the quality of the inventory as it is being developed
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Lessons
National AFOLU GHG Inventory:
- Land Representation Methods
- Carbon Stock Changes Methods
- Forest Land
- Other land uses: Cropland, Grassland, Wetlands, Settlements and Other Land
- Other GHG sources: Livestock, Soils
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Lessons
Most relevant elements for monitoring:
- Remote sensing
- Forest Inventory
- national statistics from agriculture and natural resources
Time (trimesters)
2010 2011 2012 2013
II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II
Scale
Global
Project kick-off
meeting
I Worksh
op (before COP16)
Exercises
II Workshop
(after COP17)
Exercises
III Workshop
(after COP18)
Project
Evaluation
Web remote assistance
Regional
Workshops and training courses
Exercises
National
In country visit for
setting up the
National GHG
Inventory for the
AFOLU sector
Training courses
ExercisesCollection
of available national
data
Collection of
available national
data
Training courses
submission of the
zero draft forest GHG
Inventory
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