Each of the review approaches employed in the UNFCCC review process has special implications for how you will conduct your work as an expert.

In-Country Review Considerations
As you have probably discerned, the in-country review approach is the most intensive because it focuses an entire expert review team on a single Party’s submission. It also has the benefit of interacting for a full week with the Party’s inventory experts and access to references and documents that are not generally available to desk or centralized expert review teams. The characteristics of the in-country approach allow your team to focus on particular areas; therefore during an in-country review you should:
·  Give extra focus to investigate the Party’s inventory process (system), including institutional arrangements
·  Examine the Party’s documentation and archiving procedures
·  Request and examine actual references for original data used in preparing estimates
·  Give more attention to data collection systems and what changes may have occurred to improve or worsen data quality
·  Question staff working on specific source or sink categories as to their knowledge of the Party’s QA/QC plan and how they have implemented it in their work

Desk and Centralized Review Considerations
High quality documentation is critical for all inventory submissions, but it is even more important for desk and centralized reviews. The ability of your review team to complete the review process is dependent upon Parties providing transparent documentation in their inventory submissions. Therefore, during desk and centralized reviews you and your team should give extra attention to the quality of the documentation submitted by the Party.

Before you join your team members for a centralized review, you should spend extra time preparing it. This extra preparation is important so that the week you have to work directly with your team can be used most effectively. Spending much of that week familiarizing yourself with the relevant review materials squanders this brief period you have to interact with the rest of your team.

Each of the review approaches employed in the UNFCCC review process has special implications for how you will conduct your work as an expert.