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Use of the 2006 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventors and revision of the UNFCCC reporting guidelines for Annex I Parties to the Convention

CRF Tables for SBSTA 35

CRF Tables (Final Version)

Set 1 - Energy, industrial processes and waste (225 kB)

Set 2 - AFOLU (250 kB)  

Set 3 - Cross sectoral (186 kB)

 Background and mandate

The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) at its thirtieth session considered the use by Parties of the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories (2006 IPCC Guidelines) starting in 2015. The draft conclusions proposed by the Chair are contained in the document FCCC/SBSTA/2009/3 with its key items, including a schedule of workshops, outlined below.

The SBSTA agreed that the process for Parties included in Annex I to the Convention (Annex I Parties) to use the 2006 IPCC Guidelines should be through a revision of the “Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, Part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories” (UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines). The process to revise the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines is also to consider methodological issues relevant to the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.

The SBSTA also agreed to launch a work programme in 2010 for the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines. The SBSTA further agreed on the scope of the work programme, covering issues relating to the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelinesand addressing methodological issues relevant to the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.

The Secretariat expects that the work programme will conclude in 2011 with agreement by the SBSTA at its thirty-fifth session on the revised UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines. These revised UNFCCC reporting guidelines will provide a platform for the Secretariat to implement associated activities pursuant to Annex I Parties' reporting obligations from 2015. Such activities include the incorporation of new reporting format tables into the reporting software used by Annex I Parties; trial use of this reporting software by Annex I Parties; the consideration by the SBSTA of the experiences in the use of this software by Annex I Parties; and a decision of the Conference of the Parties on the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.

Views submitted by Parties

The SBSTA, at its thirtieth session, invited Parties to submit to the secretariat by 15 February 2010 their views on a number of issues, namely:

• The process and timelines for implementing the work programme;
• Issues related to the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines;
• Methodological issues related to reporting when using the 2006 IPCC Guidelines;
• Areas in which the SBSTA may consider inviting the IPCC to carry out additional work and contribute to the work programme.

The SBSTA, at its thirtieth session, requested the Secretariat to compile submissions received from Parties on the above mentioned issues into a miscellaneous document (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/MISC.1), and to synthesize these submissions into a note by the secretariat (FCCC/SBSTA/2010/4) for the SBSTA to consider at its thirty-second session.

One submission from a non-governmental observer organization was received by the secretariat. <<MORE>< A> (155 kB)

Issues related to the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines

The SBSTA, at its thirtieth session, identified the following substantive and process-related issues relevant to the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines:

• Time-series consistency and recalculations with respect applying the methodologies contained in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines;
• Mandatory and non-mandatory reporting requirements;
• Coverage of gases to be reported by Parties (indirect emissions and additional gases);
• Sectors and source/sink categories;
• Presentation of national totals;
• Revision of the common reporting format (CRF) tables;
• Linkages between inventory reporting and a national inventory system;
• Relationship between the 2006 IPCC Guidelines and previous guidelines of the IPCC;
• The transition period from the current to the revised UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines including the flexibility allowed to Annex I Parties undergoing the process of transition to a market economy in accordance with Article 4, paragraph 6, of the Convention;
• Outline and elements of national inventory reports.

Methodological issues related to reporting when using the 2006 IPCC guidelines

The SBSTA, at its thirtieth session, identified the following methodological issues relevant to the use of the 2006 IPCC guidelines:

• Agriculture, forestry and other land use issues related to the reporting of anthropogenic emissions and removals such as: treatment of emissions and removals from natural disturbance, and inter-annual variability between the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, the IPCC Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-use Change and Forestry and the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories;
• Carbon dioxide capture and storage;
• Options for updating or deleting default parameters;
• Indirect carbon dioxide and indirect nitrous oxide emissions;
• Elaboration of good practice guidance for the use and reporting of tier 3 approaches.

The above lists are not exhaustive of all considerations of the work programme; submissions by Parties on the scope of the work programme due 15 February 2010 are likely to provide additional items to be addressed by this programme.

Workshops

The SBSTA requested the secretariat to organize in 2010 two workshops on this work programme. The first workshop is to address key issues relating to the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines, and the second workshop is to address the methodological issues relevant to the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines.

Participation in these workshops will be through invitation only.

Contacts

For further information regarding the work programme or the workshops please send an email with the title “Work programme – Revised UNFCCC reporting guidelines” to secretariat@unfccc.int.

Workshop 4:  8-10 November 2011
The fourth workshop on the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines for reporting of Inventories under the Convention will be held
8-10 November 2011 < STRONG March>at the UN Campus, Langer Eugen.

Background documents for the workshop:

Agenda (121 kB)

Annotated draft revised guidelines (470 kB)

CRF Tables (pdf version)

Set 1 - WS 4 - Energy, industrial processes and waste (304 kB)

Set 2 - WS 4 - AFOLU (354 kB)

Set 3 - WS 4 - cross-sectoral (1117 kB)

CRF Tables (MS excel version)

Set 1 - WS 4 - Energy, industrial processes and waste

Set 2 - WS 4 - AFOLU

Set 3 - WS 4 - cross-sectoral

List of participants (160 kB)

 Workshop 3:  24-25 March 2011
The third workshop on the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines for reporting of Inventories under the Convention was held < STRONG March>24-25 March 2011 at the UN Campus, Langer Eugen.

Background documents for the workshop:

Draft agenda (107 kB)

Discussion paper (987 kB)

Set 1 - Energy, industrial processes and waste (1394 kB)

Set 2 - AFOLU (1403 kB)

Set 3 - cross-sectoral (736 kB)

List of participants (147 kB)

Presenters and topic	Presentations
Introduction of document for the workshop (Ms. Astrid Olsson and Ms. Sevdalina Todorova, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (489 kB)
Organizing work to re-design the CRF Reporter (Mr. Sergey Kononov, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (163 kB)
CRF Reporter, to 2014 and beyond (Mr. Rogier van der Haagen, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (409 kB)

Workshop 2:  3-4 November 2010
The second workshop on the revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines for reporting of Inventories under the Convention was held 3-4 November 2010 at the UN Campus, Langer Eugen.

FCCC/SBSTA/2010/MISC.7/Add.3 (76 kB) (advanced version)

FCCC/SBSTA/2010/MISC.7/Add.2 (141 kB) (advanced version)

FCCC/SBSTA/2010/MISC.7/Add.1 (46 kB) (advanced version)

FCCC/SBSTA/2010/MISC.7 (267 kB) (advanced version)

Agenda (169 kB)

List of participants (148 kB)

Report (184 kB)

Workshop 1: 27-28 May 2010
The first workshop was a pre-sessional workshop held on 27-28 May 2010 at the Wissenschaftszentrum. This meeting considered a schedule of activities and timelines leading up to the second meeting that is likely to be held in the 4th quarter of 2010. The report of this workshop will be considered by the SBSTA at its thirty-second session.

Agenda (107 kB)  

List of participants (144 kB)

Report 

Presenters and topic	Presentations
Overview of issues related to a revision of the UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines based on views submitted by Parties Process and timeline of the work programme – an example of a schedule of activities based on views submitted by Parties (Mr. Matthew Dudley, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (68 kB)
UNFCCC reporting guidelines – issues identified by Parties that are relevant for their revision - Overview of issues (Mr. Matthew Dudley, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (86 kB)
Reporting format tables – issues identified by Parties for consideration when developing new RFTs - Overview of issues (Mr. Matthew Dudley, Mr. Rogier van der Haagen, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (50 kB)
2006 IPCC guidelines – an overview of main changes in coverage of reporting and changes in methodologies, and an update on relevant activities of the IPCC-TSU (Mr. Simon Eggleston, IPCC TSU)	Presentation (1124 kB)
Methodology issues identified by Parties concerning the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines that would require clarification or IPCC additional work - Overview of issues (Mr. Matthew Dudley, UNFCCC secretariat)	Presentation (45 kB)