Good Practices in National Communications of non-Annex I

Parties CGE Workshop

Cairo, Egypt

20-22 September 2007

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Good Practices Promote

• Quality

• Clarity

• Sustainability

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Good Practice Concepts

• Clear institutional arrangements including roles and responsibilities

• Teams that integrate the production of the NC into normal work area

• Establishment of priorities

• Documentation of methodologies, models, data, etc.

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Good Practice Concepts cont.

• Information maintenance system

• Quality Assurance/Quality Control

• Education, training and other forms of capacity building for national communications

• Improvement plan

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Clear Institutional Arrangements

• NCs generally evidence clear institutional arrangements; level of information varies

• Bahamas Environment, Science and Technology Commission coordinated the development of the INC with support of the National Climate Change Committee and multiple institutions; details provided

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Clear Institutional Arrangements

• Chile’s National Environment Commission coordinated the development of the INC; information provided on institutions responsible for GHG inventory and selection and analysis of mitigation measures

• The preparation of Tanzania’s INC was coordinated by the Division of Environment under the guidance of the National Climate Change Steering Committee; details provided on the participation of other institutions

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Teams Integrate INC in Normal Work Areas

• Institutional and process descriptions suggest strongly that integration often occurs

• Cuba’s INC identified three primary teams of individuals from agencies with expertise and responsibilities directly related to the work on the INC

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Teams Integrate INC in Normal Work Areas cont.

• Korea established six task forces and five research teams staffed with specialists from agencies with responsibilities and expertise directly related to their work on the INC

• Mauritius created a multi-sectoral National Climate Committee which established interagency working groups to evaluate impacts on agriculture, coastal zones, energy and water resources, health and welfare, and to create the GHG inventory

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Priority Setting

• Priorities sometimes set

• Ghana INC provides good information on the establishment of priorities for attention

• Mexico identified priority sectors for detailed vulnerability and adaptation analysis

• Uruguay NC describes priority setting criteria and focuses on resulting sectors

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Documentation

• Almost all 17 NCs provide good information/documentation on methodologies, models, data, etc.

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Information Maintenance

• Most of the 17 NCs do not provide information on information maintenance/management

• Korea proposes development of a GHG National Registration System and has implemented a plan to create a database by industry and technology

• Mexico created a Web portal database to manage the information required by the GHG inventory

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Information Maintenance cont.

• Uruguay used a data management system to store and manipulate GHG inventory data and placed the inventory data for it’s first and second NCs on a webpage to allow comparison

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QA/QC

• Most of the 17 national communications do not address quality assurance and control

• Cuba identified various QA procedures and documented the process of reviewing GHG inventory data, including third party reviews

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QA/QC cont.

• India provided a good description of its QA/QC process for the GHG inventory

• Singapore described a four stage QA/QC process for its GHG inventory

• Tanzania described QA procedures, including independent expert review

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Education and Capacity Building

• A few of the 17 NCs provided information on education and activities for building capacity to produce national communications; many did not

• Cuba described UNDP sponsored trainings and workshops that supported the NC

• Tanzania described efforts to build capacity and expertise for producing the NC

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Improvement Plan

• Most of the 17 national communications provided information on needs, opportunities and possible activities for improving climate change related information and knowledge

• A few identified specific activities or plans for improving their next NC, e.g., Albania, Chile, India, Madagascar and Uruguay

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Conclusions

• Based on 17 national communications:• Institutional arrangements, integration of work

into areas of ongoing responsibility, and documentation of work are common practices

• Additional attention to priority setting, quality assurance and control, relevant capacity building, and plans for improvement may be useful

• More widespread development/use of information maintenance and retrieval systems would facilitate sustainability