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»  UNFCCC secretariat:  Regional Capacity Building Project for Sustainable National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management Systems in Southeast Asia (SEA GHG Project)

»  UNFCCC secretariat:  Regional Capacity Building Project for Sustainable National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management Systems in Southeast Asia (SEA GHG Project)

The overall objective of this project is to strengthen the capacity of SEA countries to improve the quality of their national GHG inventory for the development of sustainable inventory management systems.

Background:
Based on the general mandate included in Article 8, paragraph 2 (c) of the Convention, as recalled in Decision 17/CP.8, the UNFCCC secretariat will facilitate assistance to non-Annex I Parties.

Participating Countries (having expressed interest)
1.  Cambodia	5.  Philippines
2.  Indonesia	6.  Singapore
3.  Lao P.D.R.	7.  Thailand
4.  Malaysia	8.  Viet Nam

Project duration:  3 years (2007–2010)

Specific project objectives are to:

• Strengthen the institutional arrangement, its functions, and operations of managing national GHG inventories;
• Enhance technical capacity of designated personnel in each sector (special attention to Agriculture and LULUCF)
• Improve national methodologies, Activity Data and Emissions Factors through regional networking;
• Support the preparation of the Second National Communication and subsequent National Communications to the UNFCCC; and to
• Develop sustainable inventory management systems in SEA.

Project components:

• Component 1:  Improving National Inventory Management Systems
• Component 2:  Comprehensive multi-tier GHG software for Agriculture and LULUCF (SEAALU software)
• Component 3:  Targeted improvements to LULUCF sector (Forest land)
• Component 4:  Targeted improvements to Agriculture sector
• Component 5:  Targeted improvements to Energy sector

Milestones

June 2007, Manila, Philippines – Scoping Meeting - Introduced to the GHG Management Templates (Component 1)

April 2008, Singapore – Kick-off Workshop - Introduced to ALU software overview (at that time still being developed) - Introduced to ALU Workbooks including a workshop on how to fill in primary and secondary data (manual distributed) (Component 2)

July 2008, Tsukuba, Japan – Follow-up meeting (half day) - Reported on the progress of the use of Templates and ALU Workbook (Components 1 and 2)

October 2008, Manila, Philippines – First in-country Training on ALU Software (four day) - Training with real data collected (15 workbooks) - Satellite imagery to be used soon

November 2008, Thailand – In-country Training on ALU Software (four day)

Next Steps

Planning for the remaining in-country training sessions (early 2010)

Completion date of current project: September 2010

Potential replication of this pilot initiative in other regions (Africa 2010)