| | Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas |
| | 12,1 | | MB | Inventories |
| | 895 | | stron |
| | 4405 | | ID | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| | 1997 | | rok |
| | The IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories are approved internationally and |
| | developed through an international process which has included: |
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| | wide dissemination of drafts and collection of comments from national experts; |
| | testing of methods through development of preliminary inventories; |
| | country studies which ensure that methods are tested in a wide variety of national contexts; |
| | technical and regional workshops held in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central Europe and |
| | Western Europe; |
| | informal expert groups convened to recommend improvements on specific aspects of the |
| | methodology. |
| | The IPCC Guidelines were first accepted in 1994 and published in 1995. UNFCCC COP3 held in |
| | 1997 in Kyoto reaffirmed that the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas |
| | Inventories should be used as "methodologies for estimating anthropogenic emissions by sources |
| | and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases" in calculation of legally-binding targets during the first |
| | commitment period. |
| | The Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines contain three volumes, each of which provides assistance to |
| | the analyst in the preparation of national GHG inventories. The series consists of three volumes: |
| | The Reporting Instructions (Volume 1) provides step-by-step directions for assembling, |
| | documenting and transmitting completed national inventory data consistently, regardless of the |
| | method used to produce the estimates. These instructions are intended for all users of the IPCC |
| | Guidelines and provide the primary means of ensuring that all reports are consistent and |
| | comparable. |
| | The Workbook (Volume 2) contains suggestions about planning and getting started on a national |
| | inventory for participants who do not have a national inventory available already and are not |
| | experienced in producing such inventories. It also contains step-by-step instructions for calculating |
| | emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), as well as some other trace gases, from |
| | six major emission source categories. It is intended to help experts in as many countries as |
| | possible to start developing inventories. |
| | The Reference Manual (Volume 3) provides a compendium of information on methods for |
| | estimation of emissions for a broader range of greenhouse gases and a complete list of source |
| | types for each. It summarises a range of possible methods for many source types. It also |
| | provides summaries of the scientific basis for the inventory methods recommended and gives |
| | extensive references to the technical literature. |