METHODOLOGIES FOR GHG EMISSIONS INVENTORIES AND PARIS AGREEMENT REPORTING: A PRACTICAL HANDBOOK

The final section discusses the decisions of the Paris Agreement on the national greenhouse gas inventories, including the methodological issues; formats and schedules for submitting the national inventories; procedures and schedules for reviewing the inventories; and the flexibility framework for the developing countries. [...] The purpose of this tool is to assist in using the methodologies provided in the IPCC Guidelines either for the preparation of complete national inventories or for the estimation of emissions and removals for separate categories or groups of categories. [...] The order of presenting source/sink categories is to be in line with the CFR tables at the level of summary tables and sectoral tables; Transparency means that data sources, assumptions and methodologies used in the inventories should be clearly explained to facilitate the reproduction and evaluation by users of the information presented in the inventories. [...] The Parties are required to quantitatively estimate the uncertainty of the data used for all source and sink categories using at least Approach 1 of the IPCC Guidelines and report such estimates in the inventory for at least the base year and the latest inventory year. [...] Emissions from fuels used in multilateral operations pursuant to the Charter of the United Nations, including emissions from fuel delivered to the military in the country and delivered to the military of other countries, are reported separately under the ‘Multilateral operations’ as information items and are not included in the national totals.