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Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines
for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories The IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories are approved internationally and developed through an international process which has included:
- wide dissemination of drafts and collection of comments from national experts;
- testing of methods through development of preliminary inventories;
- country studies which ensure that methods are tested in a wide variety of national contexts;
- technical and regional workshops held in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Central Europe and Western Europe;
- informal expert groups convened to recommend improvements on specific aspects of the methodology.
The IPCC Guidelines were first accepted in 1994 and published in 1995. UNFCCC COP3 held in 1997 in Kyoto reaffirmed that the Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories should be used as "methodologies for estimating anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases" in calculation of legally-binding targets during the first commitment period. The Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines contain three volumes, each of which provides assistance to the analyst in the preparation of national GHG inventories. The series consists of three volumes: |
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+ Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
+ Technical Papers
+ Special Reports
+ Good Practice Guidance and Supporting Documents
+ IPCC Third Assessment Report |
