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Context for IPCC 2006 Guidelines. Jim Penman Steering Group Member (UK Defra). 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
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Context for IPCC 2006 Guidelines Jim Penman Steering Group Member (UK Defra)
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.
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):
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
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.
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
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
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.