Capacity Building for Improving the Quality of Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Europe/CIS Region)

Capacity Building for Improving the Quality of GHG Inventories (Europe/CIS Region)

The project Capacity Building for Improving the Quality of Greenhouse Gas Inventories (Europe/CIS Region) initiates a regional programmatic approach developed to build capacity for improving the quality of data inputs to national greenhouse gas inventories. The project uses the Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change for cost-effectiveness.

The project builds on the expertise gained during the preparation of the initial national communications submitted to the UNFCCC Secretariat. By strengthening institutional capacity to prepare inventories and establishing a trained, sustainable inventory team, the project helps countries to reduce uncertainties and improve the quality of inventories for subsequent national communications. This, in turn, will allow countries to improve national strategies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The project includes common activities for all participating countries carried out under a regional umbrella; countries may choose the remaining activities to carry out, based on national priorities. The approach has been built on the concept of key sources of emissions, which allows the approach to be replicated for use in other regions with only minor modifications.

Main objectives:

Strengthen institutional arrangements for compiling, archiving, updating, and managing greenhouse gas inventories

Create Sustainable Inventory Process

Enhance technical capacity for preparing national inventories

Improve methodologies and emission factors

Regional project manager
Katarina Mareckova based at the Regional Environment Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in Hungary

Project assistant
Yegana Jafarova based at the Regional Environment Center for Central and Eastern Europe (REC) in Hungary

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Workshop on Improving National Inventory Systems and Greenhouse Gas Inventories
10-12. May, 2006 - Szentendre, Hungary

Side-event held at the COP 11, Montreal, Canada

Two side-events held at the COP 9, Milan, Italy