Transcript Presentation on Good Practices in National Communications of non

Good Practices in National
Communications of non-Annex I
Parties
CGE Workshop
Cairo, Egypt
20-22 September 2007
Good Practices Promote
• Quality
• Clarity
• Sustainability
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Good Practice Concepts
• Clear institutional arrangements including
roles and responsibilities
• Teams that integrate the production of the
NC into normal work area
• Establishment of priorities
• Documentation of methodologies, models,
data, etc.
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Good Practice Concepts cont.
• Information maintenance system
• Quality Assurance/Quality Control
• Education, training and other forms of
capacity building for national
communications
• Improvement plan
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Clear Institutional Arrangements
• NCs generally evidence clear institutional
arrangements; level of information varies
• Bahamas Environment, Science and
Technology Commission coordinated the
development of the INC with support of the
National Climate Change Committee and
multiple institutions; details provided
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Clear Institutional Arrangements
• Chile’s National Environment Commission
coordinated the development of the INC;
information provided on institutions responsible
for GHG inventory and selection and analysis of
mitigation measures
• The preparation of Tanzania’s INC was
coordinated by the Division of Environment
under the guidance of the National Climate
Change Steering Committee; details provided on
the participation of other institutions
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Teams Integrate INC in Normal
Work Areas
• Institutional and process descriptions
suggest strongly that integration often
occurs
• Cuba’s INC identified three primary teams
of individuals from agencies with expertise
and responsibilities directly related to the
work on the INC
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Teams Integrate INC in Normal
Work Areas cont.
• Korea established six task forces and five
research teams staffed with specialists from
agencies with responsibilities and expertise
directly related to their work on the INC
• Mauritius created a multi-sectoral National
Climate Committee which established
interagency working groups to evaluate impacts
on agriculture, coastal zones, energy and water
resources, health and welfare, and to create the
GHG inventory
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Priority Setting
• Priorities sometimes set
• Ghana INC provides good information on
the establishment of priorities for attention
• Mexico identified priority sectors for
detailed vulnerability and adaptation
analysis
• Uruguay NC describes priority setting
criteria and focuses on resulting sectors
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Documentation
• Almost all 17 NCs provide good
information/documentation on
methodologies, models, data, etc.
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Information Maintenance
• Most of the 17 NCs do not provide information
on information maintenance/management
• Korea proposes development of a GHG National
Registration System and has implemented a
plan to create a database by industry and
technology
• Mexico created a Web portal database to
manage the information required by the GHG
inventory
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Information Maintenance cont.
• Uruguay used a data management system
to store and manipulate GHG inventory
data and placed the inventory data for it’s
first and second NCs on a webpage to
allow comparison
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QA/QC
• Most of the 17 national communications
do not address quality assurance and
control
• Cuba identified various QA procedures
and documented the process of reviewing
GHG inventory data, including third party
reviews
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QA/QC cont.
• India provided a good description of its
QA/QC process for the GHG inventory
• Singapore described a four stage QA/QC
process for its GHG inventory
• Tanzania described QA procedures,
including independent expert review
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Education and Capacity Building
• A few of the 17 NCs provided information on
education and activities for building capacity to
produce national communications; many did not
• Cuba described UNDP sponsored trainings and
workshops that supported the NC
• Tanzania described efforts to build capacity and
expertise for producing the NC
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Improvement Plan
• Most of the 17 national communications
provided information on needs,
opportunities and possible activities for
improving climate change related
information and knowledge
• A few identified specific activities or plans
for improving their next NC, e.g., Albania,
Chile, India, Madagascar and Uruguay
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Conclusions
• Based on 17 national communications:
• Institutional arrangements, integration of work
into areas of ongoing responsibility, and
documentation of work are common practices
• Additional attention to priority setting, quality
assurance and control, relevant capacity
building, and plans for improvement may be
useful
• More widespread development/use of
information maintenance and retrieval systems
would facilitate sustainability
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