Context for IPCC 2006 Guidelines

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Context for IPCC 2006 Guidelines

• Jim Penman
• Steering Group Member (UK Defra)

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Origins

• OECD initiation produced IPPC guidelines in 1995,
  updated 1996
• 1996 Guidelines adopted at COP3
• Supplemented by GPG in 2000 and 2003
• System adapted to actual needs - very widely used
• Basis for 2006 Guidelines.

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Structure of 2006 Guidelines

• Aims
• Reduce number of volumes needed for cross
  referencing
• Promote consistency between sectors
• Resulting structure agreed at IPCC 21 (Vienna
  2003)

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Volume structure Overview

• Overview
• Vol 1 - General Guidance and reporting
• Vol 2 - Energy
• Vol 3 - Industrial Processes and Product Use
• Vol 4 - Agriculture, forestry and land use
• Vol 5 - Waste

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Consistency amongst sectors

• Combination of LULUF and Agriculture common
  land use statistics, treatment of N inputs
• Better coordination between Energy and IPPU on
  feedstocks
• and between energy and AFOLU on biofuels
  emissions
• and between energy and waste on incineration and
  waste derived fuels
• and between waste and HWP.

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Other improvements

• HWP, wetlands advice integrated
• Consistent approach to indirect N
• Full carbon basis for fossil fuel emissions
  throughout
• Relationship between carbon pools clarified
• EFDB linkage
• General guidance more prominent

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Data Collection

• Inclusion of cross cutting guidance a major
  advance of GPG
• Data representitiveness key issue 2006 GL
  extends significantly (sources of data, data
  collection, sensor placement etc)
• Particularly relevant because of introduction GHG
  emissions trading

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Significance of Inventory Guidelines

• As with GPG basic principle for 2006 GL remains
  neither under nor overestimates so far as can be
  judged
• IPCC very pleased that the 1996 Guidelines and
  GPG have proved of such use to Parties in
  providing unbiased estimates and believes the
  2006 Guidelines will do so in future.