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• f IPCC Task Force on National GHG

Inventories

Use of IPCC Guidelines in the UNFCCC processes

7 November 2017 COP23,

Vitor Góis GHG inventories unit Transparency framework sub-programme Mitigation, Data and Analysis Programme UNFCCC Secretariat

Outline

• History and background
• Where are we now?
• Annex I Parties
• Transition to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines and related issues
• Non-Annex Parties
• Paris Agreement

COP1 COP2 COP3 COP4 COP5 COP6 COP7 COP8 COP9 COP10 COP11 COP12 COP13 COP14 COP15 COP16 COP17 COP18 COP19 COP20 COP21 COP22 COP23 CMP1 CMP2 CMP3 CMP4 CMP5 CMP6 CMP7 CMP8 CMP9 CMP10 CMP11 CMP12 CMP13 COP24 COP25 CMP14 CMP15 UNFCCC - Arts. 4.a & 12.1a KP - Arts. 5,7&8

2000 2010 2020

Guidelines National Communications

• Rev. Guidelines NC (Annex I + non AnnexI)

Guidelines GHG Inventories Annex I Guidelines NC non Annex I Guidelines GHG Inventories Annex I BR (Annex I) + BUR (non Annex I) Revised UNFCCC review Guidelines Revised UNFCCC reporting Guidelines

Paris Agreement

Marrakesh (Rep., accounting & review) 5,7&8 (Rep., accounting & review) LULUCF, Met., common metrics 2006 IPCC Guidelines 2013 Wetlands 2013 KP Supplement Good Practice Guidance Good Practice Guidance for LULUCF Revised 1996 GL Paris Agreement

History and background

Annex I – UNFCCC reporting and review guidelines

• New UNFCCC Annex I inventory reporting guidelines

(decision 24/CP.19):

• Update of previous guidelines to incorporate methodological revisions/updates in the 2006

IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (from 2015 submissions onwards)

• Annex I Parties “shall” use the methodologies in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, unless stated
• therwise in the UNFCCC reporting guidelines, and any supplementary methodologies

agreed by the COP

• However, major difference: estimates of emissions and removals are reported separately

for the Agriculture and LULUCF sectors (not AFOLU!)

• Use of the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National

Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands (“encouragement”; required reporting of rewetting and drainage) (SBSTA)

• Annex I Parties could use EFs or parameters provided in the IPCC Emission Factor Database
• if lack country-specific information demonstrate that those are appropriate in specific

national circumstances and are more accurate than default data provided in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines

Annex I – Kyoto Protocol reporting/review guidelines

• Methodologies for CP2 (decision 4/CMP.7)
• “Shall” be consistent with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines as implemented

through the revised UNFCCC Annex I reporting guidelines

• National systems (decision 19/CMP.1 + 3/CMP.11)
• KP-LULUCF (decisions 2/CMP.7 and 6/CMP.9)
• “Shall” apply , as appropriate, the 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and

Good Practice Guidance arising from the Kyoto Protocol in consistency with 2/CMP.7

• “Shall” apply the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines: (Wetlands

Supplement) for providing information on wetland drainage and rewetting elected KP-LULUCF activity

• Parties are encouraged to use the Wetlands Supplement for any other KP-

LULUCF activities

Annex I – transition to the new UNFCCC guidelines

• Training available (GHG inventories):
• Available
• New training modules available since 2015
• Generally, not many issues related to the use of previous IPCC

Guidelines

• Parties have had the opportunity to get to know the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for a

number of years

• However, Parties had to continue reporting in accordance to previous UNFCCC

guidelines up to 2015

• Parties needed some time to update their data collection and tracking systems and

infrastructure to ensure smooth transition to 2006 guidelines

• Use of new guidelines may had some impacts on commitments and

targets in limited cases:

• The 2006 IPCC Guidelines resulted in some quantitative recalculations for national

inventories: updated EFs and parameters, new subcategories introduced and methodologies now available for some categories which were previously not available

Non annex I – use of the IPCC guidelines

• Reporting guidelines for National Communications of non-Annex I

Parties (decision 17/CP.8):

• Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines (“should” be used)
• IPCC good practice guidance (“encouraged”)
• UNFCCC biennial update reporting guidelines for Parties not

included in Annex I to the Convention (decision 2/CP.17, Annex III)

• Updates of sections on the GHG inventories based on the best information

available using

• Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines
• Good Practice Guidance and
• IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF

Non annex I – reporting/review guidelines

• Use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines
• June 2017
• 34 BURs assessed

Paris Agreement

• Framework for transparency (Art. 13 of the Paris Agreement):
• Each Party “shall” regularly provide an national inventory report using good

practice methodologies accepted by the IPCC and agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement (CMA)

• Accounting for National Determined Contributions (Art. 4.13 of the Paris

Agreement):

• Parties account for GHG emissions and removals in accordance with

methodologies and common metrics assessed by the IPCC and adopted by the CMA (decision 1/CP.21)

• Possible outcomes:
• Submissions under APA agenda items 3c and 5
• e.g. 2006 GLs/latest IPCC GLs or 1996 GLs + GPG

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