Synthesis and Assessment
During your preparations, you should also examine the Synthesis and Assessment (S&A) report, and the Party’s associated comments on this report, if available. In particular, you should examine carefully the corresponding sector of the Part II S&A report for each of the Parties you are reviewing.
When the Part II of the S&A report reaches you as part of the provided materials, is called Review Transcript. The Review Transcript contains the Part II of the S&A report and the comments from the Party to the potential issues identified by the Secretariat, with space for you to provide detailed information on the status of the issue after you finish the review (issue solved/unsolved, comments and recommendations for the next ERT) and additional working space for you that is use for identifying new issues. The review transcript is the basis for the contents of the review report and should be carefully filled-in during the review week and updated if necessary.
Click here to see a Part II report. You should take special note of the issues related to your Sector in the S&A report because you will be expected to investigate each issue in more depth and document your findings in the final review report.
You should also look carefully at the tables in Part I of the S&A report that are relevant to your sector. These tables should help inform you as to some of assumptions, methods, and trends in each Party’s inventory. The S&A also provides this information in a format that is easy to compare Parties. The S&A report is likely to be one of your most useful analytical references for your review work because it summarizes an enormous amount of information in a compact and accessible format.You should remember, though, that during the individual review stage, you are expected to go beyond the issues raised in the S&A. You should attempt to find explanations for the issues that were raised in the S&A stage (or conclude in your report that the Party has not been sufficiently transparent for the problem to be resolved). But then you should investigate other issues based on the other information available to you and your own expert judgment.
Click here to open the Part I of the Synthesis and Assessment (S&A) for Parties’
2006 submissions.
What
main different types of tables can you identify in Part I of the
S&A? Of these types how would you describe their usefulness?
Take a few minutes to write down your answers. When finished, click below
for a discussion of issues.
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