CD-REDD2Forest National GHG Inventories

Kick off meeting

Sandro Federici, Gea Galluzzi

Bonn27th May, 2010

Setting the context

REDD+ will be an instrument to award developing countries for mitigation actions

Common approach to monitoring, reporting and verifying results to ensure comparability in outcomes of different actions and/or different countries

Under the UNFCCC such an approach is based on the National System and the National GHG Inventory

Developing countries should become familiar with these instruments to ensure a prompt start of REDD+

Setting the context

The National System includes all institutional, legal and procedural arrangements made within a Party for monitoring and reporting purposes, in particular for:

production of estimates for the National GHG Inventory

reporting and archiving inventory information, aimed at ensuring the transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness and accuracy of National GHG Inventory

It collects data from the monitoring instruments (inputs) and elaborates it in the National GHG Inventory (outputs).

Setting the context

The National GHG Inventory is the instrument for calculating and reporting national sectoral GHG balances. (reporting)

To ensure equivalence among GHG balances of different countries and sectors, estimates reported in the Inventory have to comply with the five reporting principles of Transparency, Consistency, Comparability, Completeness, and Accuracy

Setting the context

Challenges:

Science and methodologies are continuously evolving National circumstances (including technical skills) are highly

variable in time and space

Therefore a standardized system aimed at high qualityestimates may:

be complex for currently available technical skills be unable to address specific circumstances be soon outdated be costly deliver POOR QUALITY data at HIGH COSTS

CDREDD approach

On the contrary

Building a national GHG inventory with a stepwise, learning by doing approach - based on IPCC guidelines – allows:

starting with current technical skills and data availability

gradually and continuously improving quality of estimates while technical skills are being further developed

This approach addresses different national circumstances in a cost-effective way

Why a NATIONAL inventory? To ensure permanence (through continuity of inventory

activities) To avoid accounting for mere displacement of emissions For coordination, consistency and continuous improvement of

inventory activities

Why follow UNFCCC guidelines? For ensuring application of the principles of estimating science:

transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness, accuracy

For consistency and comparability among national mitigation efforts (fundamental for rewarding REDD+ achievements either through a fund or a market mechanism)

CDREDD approach

Why follow IPCC guidelines?

To make GHG Inventories compliant with the 5 principles of estimating science

For a “learn by doing” approach and continuous improvement of methods, data and technical skills, thanks to:o Key category analysiso Uncertainty analysiso Tiered approach(+ Independent review based on UNFCCC guidelines)

To cover all possible national circumstances through a tiered approach

CDREDD approach

CD-REDD2 Programme

Scope of the programme

Build capacity on National GHG Inventory for the AFOLU sector with focus on forest related GHG fluxes (reporting)

Provide trained experts from developing countries for the UNFCCC inventory review process for the AFOLU sector (verification)

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Outputs Acquire knowledge on IPCC Guidelines

Decision-making autonomy

Institutional Arrangements for National Systems

Documentation and Category-by-Category Description

Key Category Analysis

Quality Assurance and Quality Control Measures

Inventory Archive System

Zero order draft of the National GHG Inventory for the

forest sector

National Inventory Improvement Plan

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Methodological Approach

output by output

evolutionary approach (progressively increasing quality and completeness)

based on land classification and stratification of data

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Output by outputPractical exercises to verify the learning progress will ensure the

achievement of each output before moving to the next

Evolutionary approachStart from Tier 1 and only forest-related GHG

emissions/removals, and then progressively:

increase in coverage (C pools and categories)

increase in complexity and (hopefully) quality

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Land classification and stratification

Start with IPCC land categories in order to identify and track land uses and land-use changes (each category having different methodologies for GHG estimation)

Stratify data within each land category to increase homogeneity in measures thereby reducing uncertainty

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Activities

Global

Regional

National

CD-REDD2 Programme

Global Activities 3 workshops to establish a common methodological

approach for the year’s activities and monitor results

WS1: National System, functions and process, followed by mail-based tests for verification of lessons learned

WS2: Data collection methodologies, review and update of activities in light of any new UNFCCC/IPCC decision/guidelines

WS3: Revision of the zero order draft of the National GHG Inventory for the forest sector and planning of potential improvements

Participation of delegates from all countries involved and experts from all agencies

Scheduled around the annual COP

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Regional Activities

one workshop and one training course (carried out together)

Basic elements and steps for the National GHG Inventory preparation process, followed by tests for verification of the lessons learned

Participation of delegates from target countries of the region

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National Activities

2 training courses per country

NA1: Training on methodologies contained in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for the AFOLU sector, assisted preparation of the Country Plan, followed by verification of lessons learned

Between the first and the second course, participants will be requested to collect available in-country data for the forest sector

NA2: Assisted application of methodologies to the national data for preparation of a zero-order draft of the National GHG Inventory for the forest sector. Review by UNFCCC reviewers

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Material

relevant UNFCCC materials on National System and National GHG Inventory:

- Decision 19/CMP.1 on “Guidelines for national systems under Article 5, paragraph 1, of the Kyoto Protocol”

- Updated UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual inventories following incorporation of the provisions of decision 14/CP.11 - FCCC/SBSTA/2006/9

- Annotated outline of the National Inventory Report

- Common Reporting Format tables for National GHG Inventories

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Material

2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventory:

- Volume 1

- Volume 4

- Glossary

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Lessons

National System:

- Role and responsibilities of involved entities;

- Strategy for data collection and selection;

- Quality Assurance (QA) activities including review procedures conducted by personnel not directly involved in the

inventory compilation/development process for verification;

- Archiving of data;

- Improvements;

- National GHG Inventory process (within a time cycle of 2 years);

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Lessons

National GHG Inventory general issues:

- Key Category analysis

- Uncertainty analysis

- Timeseries

- Description and documentation

- Quality Control (QC) activities, to measure and control the quality of the inventory as it is being developed

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Lessons

National AFOLU GHG Inventory:

- Land Representation Methods

- Carbon Stock Changes Methods

- Forest Land

- Other land uses: Cropland, Grassland, Wetlands, Settlements and Other Land

- Other GHG sources: Livestock, Soils

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Lessons

Most relevant elements for monitoring:

- Remote sensing

- Forest Inventory

- national statistics from agriculture and natural resources

Time (trimesters)

2010 2011 2012 2013

II III IV I II III IV I II III IV I II

Scale

Global

Project kick-off

meeting

I Worksh

op (before COP16)

Exercises

II Workshop

(after COP17)

Exercises

III Workshop

(after COP18)

Project

Evaluation

Web remote assistance

Regional

Workshops and training courses

Exercises

National

In country visit for

setting up the

National GHG

Inventory for the

AFOLU sector

Training courses

ExercisesCollection

of available national

data

Collection of

available national

data

Training courses

submission of the

zero draft forest GHG

Inventory