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Good
Practice Cross-Cutting Elements
What are Cross-Cutting elements for?
The IPCC Good Practice Guidance
addresses several cross-cutting elements that are to be included in a
Party’s national inventory submission. These are:
• Key Categories
(sources and sinks) Identification
• Methodological and Data Choice (e.g., use of decision trees)
• Time Series Consistency and Recalculation Techniques
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC) including
verification exercises
• Uncertainty Analysis
These elements have are
intended to help Parties improve the quality (i.e., TACCC) of their
inventories and are useful tools for reviewers. They are important elements
of a national inventory, but you should remember that their importance
derives from their ultimate contribution to improving the quality of the
Party’s inventory, especially its emission and removal estimates. As
a reviewer, you should use the information provided by the Party (and the
Secretariat) on these cross-cutting elements as a tool to help you with
your work.
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