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Most of What You Really Need to Know!
The following points will hopefully summarize for you most of the important
concepts and issues that will be covered in this module. In other words, if
you remember all of these points, you will be doing well! Do not worry if you
do not understand the reasons behind every one of these 12 points because we
will discuss them in detail in the rest of the module.
1. As you are conducting your review, you should remember four inventory
fundamentals:
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Methods
·
Data
·
National
inventory process (institutional arrangements or system)
·
Transparency
(documentation)
You
should ask yourself at each step of your review work how each Party is
performing on these four fundamentals. For example, you and your colleagues
on the review team should ask “Is this Party building a system to
produce a high quality national inventory submission?” Parties should
be making continuing efforts to improve the quality of their national
inventories, especially in regards to data quality. We will keep coming back
to these four fundamentals in these training modules.
2. One of the prime objectives of the UNFCCC inventory review process is that
the review process should be consistent across Parties.
3. As a reviewer, your job is to assess the Party’s submission for its
transparency, accuracy, consistency, comparability, and completeness (TACCC)
and for its adherence to the UNFCCC Reporting Guidelines. Yes, that’s
another abbreviation with a lot of “C’s” at the end of it!
We will go over what each of these terms mean in later modules.
4. You and your expert review team are collectively responsible for the final review
reports you prepare. Your name will go on these final reports, and the UNFCCC
Secretariat is not responsible for its content! In other words, you are
responsible for the quality of the UNFCCC inventory review process. This is
an extremely important responsibility, and one you should take very
seriously.
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