IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Programme and IPCC Software for the Workbook CGE Hands-on Training Workshop on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories for the Latin American and Caribbean Region October 2004 Panama City, Panama Taka

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IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Programme
andIPCC Software for the Workbook CGE
Hands-on Training Workshop on National
Greenhouse Gas Inventoriesfor the Latin American
and Caribbean RegionOctober 2004Panama City,
PanamaTaka HiraishiIPCC National Greenhouse
Gas Inventories Programme
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Contents

• IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Programme
  (NGGIP)
• IPCC Emission Factor Database (EFDB)
• 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
  Inventories (2006GLs)
• IPCC Software for the Workbook

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IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Programme(NGGIP)
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

• Established by WMO (World Meteorological
  Organization) and UNEP (United Nations
  Environment Programme) in 1988 to
• Make periodic assessments of the science, impacts
  and the socio-economic aspects of climate change
  and of adaptation and mitigation options to
  address it
• Assess, and develop as necessary, methodologies
  such as the IPCC Guidelines for National
  Greenhouse Gas Inventories
• Provide, on request, scientific/technical
  /socio-economic advice to the Conference of the
  Parties to the United nations Framework
  Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its
  bodies. 

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IPCC IPCC Chair
IPCC Secretariat
IPCC Bureau
Working Group 1 Science WG1 Co-chairs
Working Group 2 Impact Adaptation WG2 Co-chairs
Working Group 3 Mitigation WG3 Co-chairs
Task Force on National GHG Inventories TFI Co-chai
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Technical Support Unit USA
Technical Support Unit UK
Technical Support Unit Japan
Technical Support Unit Netherlands
Experts Authors Contributors Reviewers
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IPCC NGGIP

• IPCC/OECD/IEA GHG Inventories programme started
  1991
• Since 1999 IPCC NGGIP (TSU at IGES/Japan)
• Objectives and activities
• to develop and refine an internationally-agreed
  methodology and software for the calculation and
  reporting of national GHG emissions and removals
  and
• to encourage the widespread use of this
  methodology by countries participating in the
  IPCC and by Parties of the United Nations
  Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

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• Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National
  Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Volume 1 Reporting Instructions
Volume 2 Workbook IPCC Software
Volume 3 Reference Manual
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IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty
Management in National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories, 2000Translated to all UN Languages
Complementing the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines,
GPG-2000 provides good practice guidance to
assist countries in producing inventories that
are neither over nor underestimates so far as can
be judged, and in which uncertainties are reduced
as far as practicable
Background Papers IPCC Expert Meeting on Good
Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in
National GHG Inventories Published in late 2002
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IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land use,
Land-Use Change and Forestry, 2003
Complements the Revised 1996 IPCC
Guidelines. GPG-LULUCF provides supplementary
methods and good practice guidance for
estimating, measuring, monitoring and reporting
on carbon stock changes and greenhouse gas
emissions from LULUCF activities under Article 3,
paragraphs 3 and 4, and Articles 6 and 12 of the
Kyoto Protocol.
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Reports Tools for National GHG Inventories

• IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories
• Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG
  Inventories Software for the Workbook
• Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management
  in National GHG Inventories (GPG2000)

1995 1997 2000
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IPCC Emission Factor Database(EFDB)
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Why is the EFDB needed?

• Desirably, emission factors that reflect national
  circumstances should be used in inventory
  compilation. However, development of such
  emission factors is difficult - it is costly,
  time consuming, requires much expertise.
• By sharing data/information, emission factors
  that take into account local conditions (national
  circumstances) can be obtained cost-effectively.
• An easily accessible database on emission factors
  and other relevant parameters will facilitate
  sharing data/information by inventory compilers,
  experts, scientists worldwide.

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EFDB is expected to serve as...

• Library of well documented emission factors and
  other parameters which
• Evolves dynamically through contributions of new
  data from researchers, scientists, industry...
• Provides a wide variety of emission factors and
  other parameters with background documentation or
  technical references so that users can select and
  use appropriate data on their own responsibility.
  
• Communication platform for distribution and
  commenting on new research and measurement data.

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Data contained in EFDB

• At present, EFDB contains only the IPCC default
  data and the data from CORINAIR94.
• New data are expected to be provided by the
  global scientific and inventory society.
• New data will be evaluated for acceptance by EFDB
  Editorial Board according to the following
  criteria.
• EFDB should assist countries in producing
  inventories that are neither over- nor
  underestimates so far as can be judged and in
  which uncertainties are reduced as far as
  practicable.
• To this end, the data to be included should be

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Procedure for Data Proposals

• EFDB is open to any relevant data proposals.
• You can submit your data proposals on line.
• 1) Contact the Technical Support Unit (TSU) by
  e-mail ltipcc-efdb_at_iges.or.jpgt.
• 2) TSU will register you as a data provider, and
  give you ID password and other technical
  support.
• 3) Input your data following the guidance given
  in the EFDB User Manual for Web Application.
• 4) EFDB Editorial Board will evaluate whether the
  proposed new data are acceptable. When
  accepted...
• 5) The data will be imported into EFDB and
  disseminated to the world via Internet and CDROM

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Criteria for Inclusion of New Data

• Robust
• Within the accepted uncertainty, the value is
  unlikely to change if there was repetition of the
  original measurement programme or modelling
  activity.
• Applicable
• An emission factor can only be applicable if the
  source and its mix of technology, operating and
  environmental conditions and abatement and
  control technologies under which the emission
  factor was measured or modeled are clear and
  allow the user to see how it can be applied.
• Documented
• Access information to the original technical
  reference must be provided to evaluate the
  robustness and applicability as described above.

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Possible Benefits to Data Providers

• Making your emission factors or related
  information available to the EFDB will benefit
  you and your research institute, because it will
• Promote your own research results/publications,
  since references to relevant publications will be
  contained in the dataset.
• Involve you in ongoing IPCC activities.
  Submission of your own research results to this
  database may give you opportunities to make
  contributions to IPCC Methodology Reports (e.g.,
  2006 IPCC Guidelines) even in the case you are
  not a designated author of those reports.

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How to Access the EFDB

• Two different applications are available.
• Web application
• For all users to carry out on-line search
• For data providers to submit new emission factors
  or other parameters
• CDROM application
• For all users, in particular for those who have
  difficulty with Internet connection, to carry out
  off-line search
• The web application is the core of this system.
  New data will be made available in the Web
  application first.

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EFDB Web application
Http//www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/EFDB/main.php
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EFDB Local CDROM application

• Can be operated locally (on a stand-alone PC).
• For detailed guidance, see the User Guide for
  Local CDROM application.
• For supplementary information, see also
• Appendices A-D of the User Manual for Web
  application
• Annex to the User Manual for Web application

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EFDB Local CDROM application

• EFDB Local CDROM application works with MS Access
  MDB file, which contains the copy of the on-line
  web database.
• The latest MDB file will be made available
• Through the Internet At the "Downloads" section
  of the web application and/or
• In the form of CD-ROM Will be distributed
  annually or biannually, possibly on the occasion
  of sessions of SBSTA or COP.

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• 2006 IPCC Inventory Guidelines
• - Revision of the 96GLs to be ready in 2006

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2006 IPCC Inventory Guidelines

• SBSTA17 invited the IPCC to revise the Revised
  1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
  Inventories, taking into consideration the
  relevant work under the Convention and the Kyoto
  Protocol, and to aim to complete the work by
  early 2006.
• IPCC Panel XXI (Vienna, November 2003) approved
  the Table of Content and Terms of Reference.
• IPCC will base this work on, inter alia
• Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines,
• IPCC Report on Good Practice Guidance and
  Uncertainty Management (GPG 2000),
• IPCC Emission Factor Database,
• Good Practice Guidance on Land Use, Land-Use
  Change and Forestry. (GPG-LULUCF, 2003),
• The experience in the use of GLs/GPGs as well as
  experience from UNFCCC inventory reviews
  (e.g.FCCC/SBSTA/2003/INF.10), and
• Advance in science and technology.

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2006 IPCC Inventory Guidelines

• The 2006 Guidelines will consist of 5 volumes
  based on cross-cutting issues and individual
  sectors.
• Overview
• Cross-cutting Issues, and Reporting Tables
• Energy
• Industrial Processes and Product Use (IPPU)
• Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)
• Waste
• New gases and sources will be added where they
  are judged to be significant and there to be
  sufficient technical information (including a GWP
  in the TAR) available to justify reliable
  methods.
• Development of new methods for ozone precursors
  will be addressed under other agreements and
  conventions.

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IPCC Software for the Workbook
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What is the IPCC Software?

• A tool to help users (inventory compilers)
  prepare national GHG inventories based on the
  Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines
• It contains
• Worksheets from the Workbook (Vol.2)
• Formulas are built in. (Tier 1/Default)?
  Facilitate calculation of GHG emissions/removals
• Reporting tables from the Reporting Instructions
  (Vol.1)
• Linkages between relevant cells are built in. ?
  Facilitate reporting in accordance with the
  Guidelines.

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Users

• For those who do not have a national inventory
  available already and are not experienced in
  producing such inventories
• The software will be quite useful.
• Even for those who have their national
  inventories based on their own methodology
• The software will be still a valuable tool for
  self-verification and/or for formatting the
  summary reporting tables.
• Note There is no tool for transferring data
  automatically to this software.

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Attention

• When running the software, the users should read
• Software Manual (available in English, Spanish,
  French, Russian)
• Workbook of the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines
• The software should be used with the commercial
  spreadsheet application Excel, version 5 or a
  later version.

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How to obtain and install

• It is recommended to download the software and
  its manual through the internet from the
  IPCC-NGGIP websitehttp//www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or
  .jp/public/gl/software.htmGuidance on how to
  install is given on the website.
• It is also available in the form of CDROM (for
  Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management
  in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories) , or in
  the form of Floppy Disks.

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How to start

• Double-click the IPCC Software icon.
• Enable macros.
• Specify the year of inventory by
• selecting a year from the drop-down list or
• type in a new year (4 digits)
• Specify the template by
• selecting a year that you want to use as a
  starting point or
• selecting Blank sheets
• Then, Overview.xls will come up. Type in your
  contact information etc., and proceed to the next
  step.

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Completing your inventory

• Clicking Sectors at the top of the screen, and
  select the sector you will work with. Then, a new
  file for that sector will be opened.
• Energy (Module1.xls)
• Industrial Processes (Module2.xls)
• Agriculture (Module4.xls)
• Land -Use Change and Forestry (Module5.xls)
• Waste (Module6.xls)
• Solvents and Other Product Use sector is not
  included in this software, because there is no
  Workbook methodology for this sector.

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Energy sector module

• Contains the following worksheets.
• WS1-1 CO2 from Energy Sources (Ref approach)
• WS1-2 CO2 from Fuel Combustion by Source
  Categories (Tier 1)
• WS1-3 Non-CO2 from Fuel Combustion by
  Source Categories (Tier 1)
• WS1-4 SO2 emissions from Fuel Combustion by
  Source Categories (Tier 1)
• WS1-5 Emissions from Aircraft (Tier 2)
• WS1-6 Methane Emissions from Coal Mining and
  Handling
• WS1-7 Methane Emissions from Oil and Gas
  Activities (Tier 1)
• WS1-8 Ozone Precursors and SO2 from Refining

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Industrial Processes sector module

• Contains the following worksheets.
• WS2-1 Cement Production
• WS2-2 Production of Lime
• WS2-3 Limestone and Dolomite Use
• WS2-4 Soda Ash Production and Use
• WS2-5 Production and Use of Miscellaneous
  Mineral Products
• WS2-6 Ammonia Production
• WS2-7 Nitric Acid Production
• WS2-8 Adipic Acid Production
• WS2-9 Carbide Production
• WS2-10 Production of Other Chemicals

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Industrial Processes sector module

• Contains the following worksheets.
• WS2-11 Metal Production
• WS2-12 Pulp and Paper Industries
• WS2-13 Food and Drink
• WS2-14 Production of Halocarbons and Sulphur
  Hexafluoride
• WS2-15 Consumption of Halocarbons and
  Sulphur Hexafluoride

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Agriculture sector module

• Contains the following worksheets.
• WS4-1 Methane and Nitrous Oxide Emissions
  from Domestic Livestock
  Enteric Fermentation and Manure
  Management
• WS4-2 Methane Emissions from Flooded Rice
  Fields
• WS4-3 Prescribed Burning of Savannas
• WS4-4 Field Burning of Agricultural Residues
• WS4-5 Agricultural Soils

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LUCF sector module

• Contains the following worksheets.
• WS5-1 Changes in Forest and Other Woody
  Biomass Stocks
• WS5-2 Forest and Grassland Conversion
  - CO2 from Biomass
• WS5-3 On-site Burning of Forests - Non-CO2
  Trace Gases from Biomass Burning
• WS5-4 Abandonment of Managed Lands
• WS5-5 CO2 Emissions and Removals from Soil
• This module contains a slight modification of the
  methodology. WS5-5 has been extended so that many
  different land-use management systems can be
  included in the calculation.

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Waste sector module

• Contains the following worksheets.
• WS6-1 Methane Emissions from Solid Waste
  Disposal Sites
• WS6-2 Methane Emissions from Domestic and
  Commercial Wastewater and Sludge
  Treatment
• WS6-3 Methane Emissions from Industrial
  Wastewater and Sludge Handling
• WS6-4 Indirect Nitrous Oxide Emissions from
  Human Sewage

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Completion - Summary Tables

• While you are completing the sector worksheets,
  the sectoral and summary tables in Overview.xls
  will be filled automatically.
• Long Summary Table 7A of the Reporting
  Instructions
• Short Summary Table 7B of the Reporting
  Instructions
• Uncertainty Table 8A of the Reporting
  Instructions (This table should be filled
  manually.)
• Summaries and other sectoral sheets can be seen
  from pull-down menu.

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Image of long summary-1
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Location of files
a. Under the default set-up, these files/folders
will be created under c\ipcc\. b. By double
clicking start.xls, you can resume the
process. c. Worksheets are contained under
sub-folders of the year.
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