Capacity Building for Improving the Quality of GHG Inventories Europe CIS Region

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Capacity Building for Improving the Quality of
GHG Inventories Europe /CIS Region

• Katarina Mareckova
• UNDP-GEF regional project manager
• UNFCCC workshop, Manila, April 2004

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Content

• Introduction
• Why
• Global context
• Regional context
• What we do
• Main objectives
• Regional Priority Areas
• Organization
• Products
• How we do
• Linkages

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12 Participating countries

• Albania
• Armenia Azerbaijan Croatia
• Georgia Macedonia Moldova Mongolia
• Slovenia Tajikistan
• Turkmenistan Uzbekistan

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Technical Information

• Starting date June 2003
• Duration 3 years
• GEF implementing agency UNOPS
• Executing agency UNDP
• GEF Programme framework Enabling Activity
• Sector and subsector Environment/ Climate
  Change
• Primary type of intervention Capacity Building
• Primary target beneficiaries National climate
  teams
• Total budget (including in-kind contribution)
  2,831,696

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Global context UNFCCC, GEF

• Strengthen the capacity of participating
  countries to improve the quality of their
  national inventories in the context of their
  commitments as parties to the United Nations
  Framework Convention on Climate Change
• decisions 10/CP.2, 11/CP.2, 2/CP.4, 10/CP.4,
  10/CP.5
• FCCC/CP/2001/L.2 and L.4, articles 4.1(a)(b) and
  12.1(a) of the Convention
• Improvement of EFs and data
• non-Annex I parties are encouraged to formulate
  cost-effective national and, where appropriate,
  regional programmes aimed at the improvement of
  local emission factors and appropriate data
  gathering. Decision 10/CP.2

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Global context SNC NAI Parties

• UNFCCC Guidelines (Decision 17/CP.8)
• Inventories are key element of SNC
• Parties shall estimate inventory for 2000
• Invites NAI Parties to use elements of Annex I
  guidelines for NCs
• Parties are encouraged to apply IPCC GPGUM
• to perform key source analysis
• to describe procedures and arrangements (NIS)
• to provide information on methods (NIR)

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Regional context (1)

• the collapse of the SU in the 1990s and
  transition of governments gt dramatic declines
  in economic output (30 to 60 of GDP in CEE and
  CIS region)
• declines are beginning to be reversed in most
  countries.
• comparable developments are presented also in the
  1st NC of other countries from this region

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Regional context (2)

• Emissions in region are increasing and
  uncertainties in GHG emissions is assessed as
  high
• Low level of awareness by decision makers
• Missing long term strategies
• Remaining problems with institutional
  arrangements - low sustainability of NIS
• Limited resources and capacity
• Communication barriers, data gaps

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What we do (Main objectives)
10 outputs are defined within the project

• Strengthen institutional arrangements for
  compiling, archiving, updating and managing
  greenhouse gas inventories
• Create sustainable inventory processes Tools,
  expertise
• Enhance technical capacity for preparing national
  inventories
• Improve national methodologies and emission
  factors
• Improved Documentation and Transparency
  gtIncreased Sustainability

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Organization
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How we do (1)

• Iterative process
• Review of national objectives and priorities
  (project document developed)
• Development of detailed national workplans
  harmonize schedule, deliverables
• No duplication - Complementary approach
• (1NC-gttop-up -gtregional project -gtSNC)

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Linkages between RER/01/G31 and SNC
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How we do (2)

• the project includes common activities for all
  participating countries carried out under a
  regional umbrella
• countries may choose the remaining activities to
  carry out based on national priorities
• concept of emission key sources (allows the
  approach to be replicated for use in other
  regions with only minor modifications )

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Regional priority key sources for improving GHG
emission inventories

• CO2 emissions from mobile combustion sources
• CH4 from solid waste treatment
• Fugitive CH4 emissions from oil and gas
• CH4 emissions from enteric fermentation

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Regionally driven activities (1) (regional
support unit)

• Regional website
• On line assistance to the countries (technical,
  managerial)
• UNDP-GEF knowledge network
• Database of regional inventory experts
• Revision of countries products
• Development of awareness materials
• Peer review of national inventories
• Development of GP training tool (NCSU)

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Regionally driven activities (2) (regional
support unit)

• Workshops, trainings (4-5 regional)
• Long-term inventory strategies and QA/QC programs
• Documentation, archiving GP in inventory
  documentation
• Data collection strategies, alternative methods
• Improvement of regional EFs for selected key
  sources
• Development of Awareness campaign strategies
• Introduction to uncertainty assessment
• Workshop /training materials

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Countries key products Deliverables

• National manual of (inventory ) procedures
  compiled
• Applied EFs documented and archived
• 2-3 improved emission factors
• Uncertainties of key source emissions reduced
• National long term inventory improvement strategy
  developed
• National QA/QC plan elaborated
• Peer review reports compiled
• National experts trained in good practice
• Awareness campaign implemented

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Current status of the project

• training materials, templates developed
  distributed
• countries completed detailed work plans
  (contracts issued), regular reporting in progress
• countries completed first products
• 2nd regional training June 2004
• regional webpage established (EDG regional forum,
  DB of regional inventory experts)
• http//www.rec.org/REC/Programs/UNDP-GHGInventorie
  s/Default.html

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and - of regional approach

• Comparable structure of emission sources
• Historical experience
• Political situation, legal framework
• Economical development
• Climate conditions
• Lower costs for project and country as well
• Easier exchange of experience (Language,
  Distance)
• Replicability
• Added value of expert

• Less experience with this type of the projects
• Need to harmonise the time schedule among the
  countries

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Benefiting areas /activities

• 2nd National Communications under the UNFCCC
• Improved quality of national inventories for CDM
  / JI projects
• National inventories for non-GHGs (SO2, NOx,
  CO,)
• targeted air quality improvement plans
• Emission projections/scenarios gt more realistic
  abatement strategies, mitigation options
• Increased public and stakeholder awareness
• Increased sustainability of national inventory
  system

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