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GHG Inventory Capacity Building
Related Links
EPA
- U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- EPA's Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) International Activities
USAID's Global Climate Change Program
NCSP
- UNDP-UNEP-GEF National Communication Support Programme (NCSP)
- NCSP Manual on Managing the Greenhouse Gas Inventory Process
IPCC
UNFCCC
Japan
Developing greenhouse gas inventories is an important first step to managing emissions. U.S. EPA's approach for building capacity to develop GHG inventories is based on the following lessons learned from working alongside developing country experts:
- Technical expertise for GHG inventories already exists in developing countries.
- Nevertheless, developing country climate change teams face other significant challenges:
- Small teams with multiple responsibilities and limited resources;
- Incomplete or non-existent data;
- Lack of country-specific emission factors;
- Insufficient documentation of methods and data sources used in previous inventories; and
- Difficulties retaining capacity and expertise developed during the preparation of the first National Communications.
- Priorities should be determined by developing countries rather than donors.
U.S. EPA's capacity building activities focus on specific measurable and realistic outcomes. The keys to this approach are the two complementary sets of tools to assist Non-Annex I (NAI) Parties with GHG inventories:
- National System Templates to document and institutionalize the inventory management process.
- Targeted data collection strategies and software tools to assist developing countries in moving to higher Tier IPCC methods.