Workshop to Exchange Views and Ideas on Possible Elements to be Considered in a Future Revision of the UNFCCC guidelines for the NA-I Preparation on National Comunications

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Workshop to Exchange Views and Ideas on Possible
Elements to be Considered in a Future Revision of
the UNFCCC guidelines for the NA-I Preparation on
National Comunications

• National GHG Inventories

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Participants

• Malaysia
• Dominican Republic
• Israel
• Panamá
• Ghana
• Jamaica

• Papua and New Guinea
• Singapure
• Maldives
• Nigeria
• CGE
• Japan
• Chile
• Algeria
• Guatemala

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Objectives of the Guidelines

• Assist non-Annex I Parties in meeting their
  reporting requirements under the Convention
• Encourage the presentation of information in a
  consistent, transparent and comparable, as well
  as flexible, manner, taking into account specific
  national circumstances
• Facilitate the presentation of information on
  support required for the preparation and
  improvement of national communications from
  non-Annex I Parties
• To ensure that the Conference of the Parties
  (COP) has sufficient information to carry out its
  responsibility for assessing the implementation
  of the Convention by Parties.

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Recommended Elements

• 7. We recommend to establish inventories for the
  latest years available, taking into account the
  national capabilities and circumstances, with
  comparable milestones among countries.
• 11. Enhance the level of ambition to apply the
  GPG (2000 and 2003), (instead of to encouraged
  use to recommend.
• 13. Describe in more details the procedures and
  arrangement to sustain the GHG inventories
  process (p. e. documentations, QA/QC, the
  archiving system, inventory improvement plan).

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Recommended Elements

• 21.
• Encourage institutional arrangement for the
  improvement of future national inventories
• Encourage the use National Emissions Factors and
  the use of the most recent IPCC Emissions factors
• Enhance the systematic sharing of local Emissions
  Factors (e.g. via the EFDB)
• 21. Parties wishing to provide more detailed
  information may submit Inventories Report.
• 22. Revise the reporting tables in order to
  present more detailed information
• 23. Encourage the use of uniform reporting format
  for non AN-I parties.