Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

An Overview of the 2013 Revised Supplementary

Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising

from the Kyoto Protocol

Nalin SRIVASTAVA, IPCC TFI TSU

JRC Technical Workshop 2014

on Reporting LULUCF for CP2 with IPCC 2013 KP Supplement

5-7 May 2014, Arona (Novara, Italy)

Outline

Introduction

Background

Production of the KP Supplement

Salient Features of the KP Supplement

Summary

Introduction

• The 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice

Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol (KP Supplement)

provides supplementary methods and good practice guidance

for estimating and reporting anthropogenic greenhouse gas

(GHG) emissions and removals resulting from LULUCF

activities under Article 3.3 and Article 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol

for the second commitment period, 2013-2020.

• Supplementary methods are additional guidance to produce

the supplementary information needed in greenhouse gas

inventories to meet the LULUCF rules for the Kyoto Protocol.

Background

Background • Chapter 4 of IPCC GPG LULUCF provides the supplementary

methods and good practice guidance for reporting of LULUCF

activities under Article 3.3 and 3.4 of the Kyoto Protocol for the

first commitment period.

• The UNFCCC CMP7 invited the IPCC “…to review and, if

necessary, update supplementary methodologies for estimating

anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions by sources and

removals by sinks resulting from land use, land-use change and

forestry (LULUCF) activities under Article 3, paragraphs 3 and 4,

of the Kyoto Protocol (KP), related to the annex to 2/CMP.7, on

the basis of, inter alia, Chapter 4 of IPCC’s 2003 Good Practice

Guidance for Land-use, Land-use Change and Forestry.”

Background (2)

• Revision to the supplementary methods is necessitated

by:

– Decision by the Parties to UNFCCC to use 2006 IPCC

Guidelines for the reporting in the second commitment period;

– Changes in rules for reporting and accounting Art. 3.3 and 3.4

activities pursuant to decision 2/CMP.7.

Background (3) • In response, IPCC Task Force on Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) held the

Scoping Meeting to Consider the Invitation from UNFCCC CMP7, 1-4 May

2012 in Geneva.

• The Scoping Meeting concluded that whilst much of the supplementary

guidance in Chapter 4 remains relevant, it needs significant updating to take

account of:

– LULUCF decision 2/CMP.7 & other relevant decisions by COP/CMP;

– 2006 IPCC Guidelines;

– IPCC’s work on supplementary guidance on wetlands;

– Other IPCC products.

• The Scoping Meeting produced draft Terms of Reference (ToR) and chapter

outline of 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice

Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol that were later approved by the

IPCC35.

– Section 4.3 (Projects) was removed from the ToR based on the IPCC Plenary decision.

Production of the KP Supplement

Production of the KP Supplement

• Following the approval by the IPCC Plenary, the Bureau of the IPCC Task

Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC TFI) selected an

international team of authors in August 2012.

• Work on the production of the KP Supplement was carried out in 2012-13.

It involved four Lead Author meetings and two rounds of reviews, first by

experts and later by governments and experts of the First Order Draft

(FOD) and Second Order Draft (SOD) respectively.

• Governments submitted comments on the Final Draft (FD) in September

2013.

• The KP Supplement was finally adopted/accepted by IPCC37 in Batumi,

Georgia, 14-18 October 2013 and published on the IPCC TFI website on

28 February 2014.

KP Supplement: Milestones

35th Session of the IPCC (Jun 2012): Proposal approved by the IPCC

Plenary

IPCC invitation for nominations (Jun 2012)

Selection of Authors/REs by TFB (Aug 2012)

1st Lead Author Meeting, Japan (Sep 2012): To

develop Zero Order Draft (ZOD)

2nd Lead Author Meeting, Australia (Nov 2012) :To

develop First Order Draft (FOD)

Expert Review ( 07 Jan –03 Feb 2013)

3rd Lead Author Meeting Norway (05-08 Mar 2013):

To consider comments and develop Second Order

Draft (SOD)

Government & Expert Review (22 Apr–02 Jun

2013)

4th Lead Author Meeting, Thailand (14-18 Jul 2013):

To consider comments and prepare Final Draft

Distribution of Final Draft to Governments (02-29

Sep 2013)

Adoption/acceptance of the KP Supplement,

Georgia (14-18 Oct 2013)

KP Supplement: Some Facts

65 Lead Authors and 9 Review Editors from 30 countries

6 Contributing Authors from 6 countries

2 Chapters and an Overview Chapter

Over 130 scientific publications cited

KP Supplement: Review Process

Expert Review

• Over 240 individuals registered

• 2507 comments from 93 Expert Reviewers on the First Order Draft (FOD)

Govt. & Expert Review

• Over 440 individuals registered

• 1676 comments from 49 Expert Reviewers and 18 Governments on the Second Order Draft (SOD)

Final Govt. Distribution

• 307 comments from 14 Governments on the Final Draft (FD)

Salient Features of the KP Supplement

Reasons for Revision of Chapter 4 of the

GPG-LULUCF

The KP Supplement

New rules for

accounting of FM

Mandatory accounting

of HWP

New rules for natural

disturbances for ARD and FM activities

New rules for harvest and

conversion of forest

plantations to non-forest

Wetland Drainage and Rewetting as

an elected activity under

Art. 3.4

2006 IPCC Guidelines

Other consequential

changes

KP Supplement

• Broadly maintains the structure and general content of

Chapter 4 in GPG-LULUCF, while incorporating some

important changes as mandated by Decision 2/CMP.7

and other COP/CMP decisions.

Overview Chapter

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Methods for estimation, measurement, monitoring and

reporting of LULUCF activities under

Articles 3.3 and 3.4

KP Supplement (2)

Also contains

Glossary, List

of

Abbreviations

& Annex 2A.1:

Reporting

Tables

Changes in the KP Supplement

relative to Chapter 4 of GPG-LULUCF

• Chapter 1: Introduction

– Changes to steps for reporting supplementary information and the

general rules for categorisation of lands under Articles 3.3 and 3.4 due

to FM being made a mandatory activity and inclusion of WDR as an

elective activity under Article 3.4;

– Updating decision trees and figures to reflect Decision 2/CMP.7.

• Chapter 2: Methods for estimation, measurement,

monitoring and reporting of LULUCF activities under

Articles 3.3 and 3.4

– Revision of the section on Disturbances (Section 2.3.9; Section 4.2.3.6

in Chapter 4 of GPG- LULUCF);

Changes in the KP Supplement relative

to Chapter 4 of GPG-LULUCF(2) – Addition of new sections:

• Forest Management Reference Level (Section 2.7.5);

• Technical Corrections (Section 2.7.6);

• Carbon Equivalent Forests (Section 2.7.7);

• Harvested Wood Products (Section 2.8);

• Wetland Drainage and Rewetting (Section 2.12).

Summary

• Following an invitation by CMP.7, IPCC TFI has developed

the KP Supplement that provides the supplementary

methods and good practice guidance for reporting of

LULUCF activities under Article 3.3 and 3.4 of the Kyoto

Protocol in the second commitment period.

• While broadly maintaining the structure and general

content of Chapter 4 in GPG-LULUCF, the KP Supplement

contains some important changes as mandated by

Decision 2/CMP.7 and other COP/CMP decisions.

Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

Thank you! E-mail: srivastava@iges.or.jp

Please visit TFI website for more information :

http://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/kpsg/index.html