Title: CGE WORKSHOP St Mary
1CGE WORKSHOPSt Marys Antigua and
Burbuda21 to 23 March 2011
- LESSONS LEARNT AND GOOD PRACTICE FOR
REPORTING OF NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BY NAI
2BACKGROUND
- In order to fulfil part of Work
Programme of the CGE Mandate(FCCC/SBI/2010/inf
.2) of synthesizing lessons learnt and
collate good practices for reporting of
National Communications, - Key selected indicators have been identified
from User Manual for Guidelines on NCs
from NAI for various sections of National
Communication for NAI Parties, which
represent a fair contribution to good
practice articulation. - These key indicators have been
qualitatively assessed/collected from SNC
reports of selected NAI Parties which have
so far submitted their NCs, and from other
groups work to avoid duplication. - The Matrix developed can enable a reasonable
fair comparison of good practices and challenges
across NAI countries who have submitted their SNC - This process may assist in identification
of challenges which require sharing among
Parties aimed at improving reporting of NCs.
3KEY INDICATORS
National Circumstances (NC) National Circumstances (NC)
Indicator Number
1 Features from national circumstances affecting and/or being affected by climate change
2 Institututional arrangements
3 Summary Table of key relevant information on national circumstances
GHG Inventories (GHG) GHG Inventories (GHG)
1 Institutional arrangements
2 Key category analysis
3 National Inventory Management System-QA/QC and Uncertainty assessments
4 IPCC methodological guidelines and Guidance
5 Riding the Tier ladder
6 Difficulties in collecting activity data
7 Complete coverage of gases and Summary table
8 Coverage of all sectors
9 Allocation of GHG estimates and time series
10 Use of Notation keys
11 Choice of emission factor
4KEY INDICATORS
VA VA
1 Institutioanl arrangements
2 Current vulnerabity of sectors based on historical climate data
3 Use of models
4 Selection/prioritisation of adaptation projects tools/methods
5 Socio economic impacts from climate change
6 Policy Framework
Mitigation Mitigation
1 Institutional arrangements
2 Use of models
3 Use of marginal costing models/methods
4 Mitigation potential and cost of mitigation
5 Integration of GHG reductions and cosst through marginal costing analysis
6 Macro economic assessment of climate change
Other relevant information Other relevant information
1 Integrating/mainstraming into development plans
2 Status of activities related to technology transfer
3 Status of activities related to research and systematic observation
4 Status of activities related to education, training and public awareness
5RESULTS
- 90 of the Parties assessed included in
the NC, information on institutional
arrangements for preparation of National
Circumstances and distribution of
responsibilities - Only 19.4 and 40 of attained indicators,
included in the NC description of relevant
features from national circumstances
affecting and/or being affected by climate
change, and insertion of a Summary Table of
key relevant information.
6RESULTS-GHG INVENTORY
- Over 80 of Parties attained good practice
reporting on inclusion of information on
description of institutional arrangements for
preparation of GHG inventory, use of
higher-tier methods, and coverage of all
sectors, respectively - There was moderate coverage of indicators of
around 60 related to complete coverage of
gases including indirect gases and inclusion
of Summary Table, and time series analysis.
7RESULTS-GHG Inventory
- There were, however, challenges with
attainment performance of below 50 on
undertaking comparison of Reference and
Sectoral Approaches, key category analysis,
institution of National Inventory Management
System including QA/QC and uncertainty
assessments, and combined use of Revised
1996 IPCC Guidelines, IPCC Good Practice
Guidance 2000, and Good Practice Guidance
for LULUCF 2003.
8RESULTS VA
- There was good practice reporting on
inclusion of information on institutional
arrangements for preparation of VA, and
use of GCM/RCM models for developing CC
projection scenarios and impact assessment
based either on models or expert judgment
with over 80 attainment, and to some
extent inclusion of Policy Framework - The challenge, however, remained with
application of either multi criteria
analysis and/or cost benefit analysis for
prioritisation of projects from the normally
long lists of adaption projects being
recommended.
9RESULTS-MITIGATION
- There were good efforts to include in the
NC information related to mitigation
strategy and plan, and use of tools for
baseline and mitigation scenarios development
with 70 and 52, respectively. - There was, however, less assessment of
cost of mitigation, and integration of GHG
reductions and costs through construction
of marginal cost curves with below 20
attainment performance and completely no
coverage on macroeconomic assessment of
climate change mitigation.
10RESULTS- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION
- There was good attainment of inclusion on
status on information technology transfer,
research and systematic observation, and
activities related to education, training
and public awareness with 90 attainment - Under this section, the challenge remains
with integrating and/or mainstreaming climate
change into development plans
11RESULTS-SUMMARY PERFORMANCE ATTAINMENT
Attainment range lt50 50 to 59 60 to 69 Over 70 Total
Number in range 13 4 10 4 31
Comments ( Total) 42 13 32 13 100
If over 60 can be regarded as good
practice threshold, results of this
analysis indicate that 45 of the Parties
assessed had made efforts in their
reporting with good practice, and 55 had
challenges in fulfilling good practice
during reporting of NCs.