After completing this training module, you should have developed a good understanding of the general objectives of the UNFCCC review process. You should also now be familiar with the cross-cutting elements of the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and how to utilize them in performing your reviews. Overall, we hope that you have a good overall feeling for how the inventory review process works and how you can effectively participate in it as a member of an expert review team.

So at the risk of being repetitive once more, below is a summary of the 12 most important points you should remember from this training module:

1. One of the objectives of UNFCCC review process is that review be conducted consistently across Parties. Given the differences in the three review processes (In-Country, Centralized, and Desk), you should avoid any biases in your assessments of each Party’s inventory submission.

2. Again, you should ask yourself at each step of your review work how each Party is performing on the four fundamentals: Methods, Data, National inventory process (institutional arrangements/system) and Transparency (documentation).

3. Also ask yourself, “Is this Party building a system to produce a high quality national inventory submission?” Parties should be making efforts to improve the quality of their national inventories, especially in regards to data quality. Good data are extremely important (as or more important than what method is used). In keeping with your team’s prioritization scheme to finish your reviews in the time allotted, you should probe for the characteristics of each Party’s data, including its collection methods, caveats, etc., in an effort to determine the quality and proper application of the data.

4. And like we have said: Despite the best technical efforts by the Party, it has failed if it did not provide a well documented inventory submission.