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CGE Training Materials for the Preparation of National Communications from non-Annex I Parties
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The training materials below are designed to facilitate the preparation of national communications
(NCs) by non-Annex I Parties in accordance with the guidelines of the Conventions (decision 17/CP.8).
They are not intended to replace any of the methodologies or tools referred to or mentioned in in the
modules. For further detail and explanation, the reader is therefore always encouraged to go back to
the original documents or tools referred to in the text.
Please note that the secretariat does not promote any particular methods or publications.
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CGE Training Materials for the Preparation of NCs
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Français
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Español
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English
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Training Materials on Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments
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Training Materials on National GHG Inventories
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Training Materials on Mitigation Assessments
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Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Planning, including selecting vulnerability and adaptation frameworks
Chapter 3 - Baseline socioeconomic scenarios
Chapter 4 - Climate change scenarios
Chapter 5 - Coastal resources
Chapter 6 - Water resources
Chapter 7 - Agriculture
Chapter 8 - Human health
Chapter 9 - Integration
Chapter 10 - Communication
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UNFCCC software
Cross-cutting issues
The Energy Sector
Fuel combustion
Fugitive emissions
 Exercise – Energy sector
The Industrial Processes Sector
The Agriculture Sector
General issues
Inventory simulation
The LULUCF Sector
The Waste Sector
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Training Handbook
Module A - Mitigation of climate change
Module B - Mitigation in Context of National Communications
and the UNFCCC
Module C - Mitigation Assessment: Concepts, Structure and Steps
Module D - Mitigation Options, Issues and Barriers by Sector
Module E - Mitigation Analysis: Methods and Tools
Module F - Reporting on Mitigation in National Communications
Module G - Building national arrangements for the mitigation assessment
Exercise
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Further, the CGE also compiled a list of:
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Reference materials on steps to integrate climate change considerations into relevant
social,
economic and environmental policies and actions (248 kB) ;
Regional centers of excellence that undertake technical work in the areas of national
communications from non-Annex I Parties and also existing activities and programmes, including
bilateral, regional and multilateral sources of financial and technical assistance, to facilitate
and
support the preparation of national communications by non-Annex I Parties (195 kB) .
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Selected IPCC documents
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Inventory
- Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry. 2003 more>>
- Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
2000. more>>
- IPCC Emission Factors Database (EFDB) more>>
- Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (3 Volumes) Approved
in 1996, and published in 1997. more>>
- For supporting material (Expert Meeting Reports) of the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories Programme (IPCC-NGGIP) please click here.
Abatement
- Climate Change 2007: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group
III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC more>>
- IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios. 2000. more>>
- IPCC Special Report on Technology Transfer. 2000. more>>
- IPCC Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry. 2000. more>>
- Technologies, Policies and Measures for Mitigating Climate Change - IPCC Technical Paper
I. November 1996.
English, French, Spanish
Vulnerability and adaptation
- Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working
Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC more>>
- IPCC Special Report on The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of
Vulnerability. 1998. more>>
The science of climate change
- IPCC Working Group I - Fourth Assessment Report: The Physical Science Basis of
Climate Change more>>
- An Introduction to Simple Climate Models used in the IPCC Second Assessment Report - IPCC
Technical Paper II. February 1997.
English, French, Spanish
- Stabilization of Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases: Physical, Biological and Socio-Economic
Implications - IPCC Technical Paper III. February 1997. English,
French,
Spanish
- IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptations. 1995 (The
guidelines are out of print. They also cannot be downloaded from the Internet.)
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Other key training material and methodological documents
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- Handbook on Methods for Climate Change Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies. This
handbook, published by UNEP and the Free University of Amsterdam in 1998, was designed to be
an introduction to a wide range of methods that can be used to design assessment studies of
climate change impacts and related adaptation strategies.
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- Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change / Global and regional
SCENario GENerator (MAGICC and SCENGEN). The MAGICC/SCENGEN workbook and technical manual may
be downloaded from the web site of the Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia,
Norwich, UK. more>>
- Managing the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
Handbook: This handbook was developed under the leadership of the NCSP, who managed a review process in which draft versions were
circulated for comments to 130 project co-ordinators of non-Annex I National Communications,
interested Annex I Parties, the Consultative Group of Experts on non-Annex I National
Communications (CGE) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change National Greenhouse
Gas Inventories Programme (IPCC-NGGIP).
- LEAP: Long-range Energy Alternatives Planning system. LEAP is a software tool for
integrated energy-environment and greenhouse gas mitigation analysis. LEAP has been developed
by the Stockholm Environment Institute-Boston with support from international organizations
to meet the needs of researchers, NGOs and government agencies worldwide.
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- Adaptation Policy Framework (APF). The UNDP National Communications Support Programme
(NCSP) has developed an Adaptation Policy Framework, which is currently undergoing a review
process. The main objective of the framework is to help countries strengthen their capacity
for preparing national plans and prioritising adaptations to climate change. According to the
NCSP the work may also support preparation of National Communications of non-Annex I Parties.
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Contact and Feedback
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For submission of national reports from non-Annex I Parties, please e-mail the secretariat:
nai_nc@unfccc.int. The details on the submission
process will be communicated through this email.
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