The network is aimed at providing peer to peer learning, capacity building and knowledge exchange on Greenhouse Gas Inventory Management Systems, and IPCC Guidelines
for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories for reporting purposes.
Parties adopted the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories as the standard methodology for reporting their national GHG inventories (Decisions 3 / CP.1 and 9 / CP.2).
One of the first tasks set by the UNFCCC was for signatory nations to establish
national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for accession of Annex I countries to the Kyoto Protocol and for the commitment of those countries to GHG reductions.
One of its first tasks of the UNFCCC was to
establish national greenhouse gas inventories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, which were used to create the 1990 benchmark levels for the commitment of industrialized countries, called Annex 1 Parties, to GHG reductions.
These 2006 IPCC Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories build on the previous Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines and the subsequent Good Practice reports in an evolutionary manner to ensure that moving from the previous guidelines to these new guidelines is as straightforward as possible.
In the U.S. alone, annual N2O emissions from agricultural soil management were approximately 216 million metric tons carbon dioxide - equivalent according to the 2008
U.S. National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
At SBSTA 12 (June 2000), they were also provided with copies of the IPCC Report on Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management
in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, which contains information on methods to estimate bunker fuel emissions.
The content of this bibliographic system and repository shall be shared between all the Working Groups and the Task Force
on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, and shall be publicly available on or before completion of the Report for a period of at least five years.
The methodologies in the field guide are consistent with international standards as related to guidelines of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and relevant sourcebooks (The IPCC recently developed the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands).
The calculations feed into
a national greenhouse gas inventory.
Yasso has been used by eight European countries to produce
their national greenhouse gas inventories as required by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
According to the Aruba Tourism Authority, six of the island's resorts are certified by EarthCheck for complying with a collection of green guidelines, such as the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
The Task Force on
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories is responsible for the IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme.
The category land - use change and forestry of the 1995 IPCC Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, used by Parties to report their second national communications has three main sub-categories:
As was decided during their Nov. 14 - 15 Meeting, Presidents Obama and Hu agreed that the U.S. EPA will assist China in developing
its national greenhouse gas inventory, providing a greater level of assurance that the Chinese are accurately accounting for emissions using best - practices and sound methodologies.
The latest version of the IPCC Guidelines on
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories was approved by the Panel in 2006.
The IPCC also has a Task Force on
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI).
The Department of the Environment released its Quarterly Update of Australia's
National Greenhouse Gas Inventory: June 2014.
Emission categories Emission estimates are presented in accordance with the categories of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (1996).
This technical document extends the content of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and provides updated information reflecting scientific advances, including updating of emission factors for wetlands.
Activity data Activity data, according to the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, are defined as data on the magnitude of human activity resulting in emissions or removals taking place during a given period of time.
In 2010, N2O emissions from agricultural soil management in the U.S. were approximately 208 million metric tons of CO2 - equivalent according to the Environmental Protection Agency's 2012
National Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
At its twenty - sixth session (FCCC / SBSTA / 2007 / 4, paragraphs 59 - 61), issues related to harvested wood products (HWP) were considered together with the SBSTA agenda item on IPCC guidelines for
national greenhouse gas inventories.
An approach for estimating the net CO2 emissions from forest harvesting and wood products was forwarded to the IPCC Plenary in 1996, as part of the Revised 1996 Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
It also invited Annex I Parties to submit to the secretariat, by 1 August 2005, updated data and information on harvested wood products and on experiences with the use of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and the Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land - use Change and Forestry to generate such data and information.