Regional Training Seminar on assessment of GHG Inventories in the Forestry and Other Land Use
Date: 15-16.04.2015
Place: Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Organizer: ECRAN Secretariat with EC TAIEX Unit
Regulation (EU) No 525/2013 on mechanisms for monitoring and reporting greenhouse gas
emissions and for reporting other information at national and Union level relevant to climate
change (hereinafter: Monitoring Mechanism Regulation or MMR) revises and strengthens the EU's
greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting framework in order to provide a better platform for EU
action to tackle climate change. It fully substitutes the Decision No 280/2004/EC (Monitoring
Mechanism Decision or MMD). Its main goals include improving the quality of the data reported,
enabling the implementation of the Climate and Energy package through accurately tracking the
progress of the Union and EU Member States towards meeting their emission targets for 2013-2020
and taking into account the periodic update at international level of the use of metrics (Global
warming potentials) and methodologies (IPCC Guidelines) in the determination of greenhouse gas
inventories.
Objectives of the Training
The aim of this training seminar is to gradually improve/increase technical knowledge and
institutional and procedural capacities of the ECRAN countries to prepare submissions of the
National Inventory Reports according to the requirements of the MMR.
The training seminar is covering following activities of ECRAN’s Working Group 2 on “National
inventory systems and the EU Monitoring Mechanism Regulation”: Sub-task 2.2.A. is related to
regional technical training seminars on GHG inventory in Forestry and Other Land Use (formerly
Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sectors in accordance with the Revised 1996
IPCC Guidelines)
The results of this training will feed into assessment report which will include recommendations for
short and long-term inventory improvements in relation to applied methodology, activity data and
emission factors in the beneficiaries.
This regional training seminar is based on the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories.
Expected Results of the Workshop
The expected results are:
- Quality control check of key categories with focus on completeness and accuracy;
- Identification of activity data gaps and providing recommendations and guidance for gap filling;
- Improved skills in selecting emission factors and other calculation parameters in Forestry and Other Land Use sector;
- Setting priorities for country-specific short and long-term GHG inventory improvements.
