Table 1 List of common issues and possible solutions, by sector [11]
From: Improving GHG inventories by regional information exchange: a report from Asia
Sector | Types | Identified common issues | Suggested possible solutions |
|---|---|---|---|
Energy | Activity data | Collection of data | - Sharing experiences specifically relevant to the areas of transportaion, power plant, and heavy industry |
| Â | Emission factors | Development of improved emission factors | - Making tables for the values of local emission factors in Asia with assumptions adopted |
| Â | Quality assuarance and quality control (QA/QC) | Implementation of QA/QC | - Creating different database for comparison - Recording routine process and assignments of each implementing agency |
| Â | Uncertainty assessment | Implementation of uncertainty assessment | - Following up and updating data and information |
Agriculture | Emission factors | Development of regional specific emission factors | - Implementing regional research projects - Enhancing collaboration among experts - Sharing database and experience |
| Â | Monitoring | Establishment of network for GHG emissions monitoring | Â |
| Â | Financial resource | Acquisition of funding for research and capacity development activities | Â |
Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) | Activity data | Adjustment of different level of details of forest categories and strata between states and provinces | - Encouraging local research agencies and universities to conduct research and receive endorsement from relevant authority for the work |
| Â | Emission (Removal) factors | Determination of the appropriate number of destructive sampling that is cost-effective | - Obtaining additional data from other information sources, such as national inventories of other countries in the region |
| Â | Uncertainty | Development of good activity data and emission factors for the key categories, which may be cost-ineffective | - Applying the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in regions and/or provinces that significantly contribute to the emissions of the categories |
| Â | Institutional arrangements | Frequent change of personnel engaged in inventory development | - Institutionalising inventory work, at least at the level of national focal point - Developing manuals in local language |
Waste | Activity data | Collection of data, such as accurate waste generation amounts and degraded organic carbon | - Encouraging local research agencies and universities to do site measurements in waste areas and to collect detailed information of waste treatment management levels - Seeking support from local/relevant authorities for inventory work (etc.) |
| Â | Emission factors | Development of improved emission factors in different countries or regions | - Getting additional data from other information sources, such as national inventories of other countries in the region (etc.) |
| Â | Uncertainty | Development of reliable activity data and emission factors, which can reduce uncertainty | - Applying the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in regions and/or provinces that significantly contribute to the emissions of the categories (etc.) |
| Â | Institutional arrangements | Inconsistency of working groups in the waste sector at the domestic and international levels | - Developing manuals in local languages - Establishing an international network for cooperating in the waste sector (etc.) |