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FCCC/CP/1997/L.5
8 December 1997
CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES
Third session
Kyoto, 1-10 December 1997
Agenda item 5
The Conference of the Parties,
Recalling its decisions 4/CP.1 and 9/CP.2,
Endorsing the relevant conclusions of the Subsidiary Body
for Scientific and Technological Advice at its fourth session
(FCCC/SBSTA/1996/20, paras. 30 and 54),
1. Reaffirms that Parties should use the Revised 1996 Guidelines for National
Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to
estimate and report on anthropogenic emissions by sources and
removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal
Protocol;
2. Affirms that the actual emissions of
hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulphur hexafluoride should
be estimated, where data are available, and used for the reporting of
emissions. Parties should make every effort to develop the necessary
sources of data;
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3. Reaffirms that global warming potentials (GWPs) used by Parties
should be those provided by the IPCC in its Second Assessment Report ("1995 IPCC GWP
values") based on the effects of the greenhouse gases over a
100-year time horizon, taking into account the inherent and
complicated uncertainties involved in global warming potential
estimates. In addition, for information purposes only, Parties may
also use another time horizon, as provided in the Second Assessment
Report;
4. Recalls that, under the Revised 1996 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories of the IPCC, emissions based upon fuel sold to ships
or aircraft engaged in international transport should not be included
in national totals, but reported separately; and urges the
Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice to further
elaborate on the inclusion of these emissions in the overall
greenhouse gas inventories of the Parties; and
5. Decides that emissions resulting from multilateral operations pursuant to the
United Nations Charter shall not be included in national totals,
but reported separately. Emissions related to other operations shall
be included in the national emissions totals of one or more Parties
involved.