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INVENTORY PREPARATION
                   
               
           
  This section briefly discusses the overall process of preparing a national greenhouse gas inventory, while focusing on the cross-cutting guidance from the IPCC Good Practice Guidance. As a member of an expert review team, you will be expected to have mastered this material. Figure 1 on the right presents an outline of the material covered in this section.

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I. Why Parties Do Inventories

II. GHG Inventory

III. Preparing Inventories

IV. Good Practice Cross-Cutting Elements

  • Purpose
  • Key Categories Identification
  • Methodological and Data Choice
  • Time Series Consistency and Recalculations
  • Quality Assurance/Quality Control
  • Uncertainty

 

Figure 1. Section Outline