Quality Management in the Finland’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory

Leena Raittinen, Statistics Finland

UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems

11-12 April 2005

Bonn, Germany

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Quality - What is it all about?

Quality is not a thing but a relation

Quality is the relationship between intention and outcome

High quality of the inventory is in practice conformance to requirements

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Quality strategy for the Finnish GHG inventory system

Documentation Documentation

quality requirements for the GHG inventory are integrated directly to the National system & annual inventory process

no separate QM system

all parties of the national system are responsible for the quality of their own inventory calculations

documentation provides confidence in the conformity of the system to the requirements

Implementation

National systemAnnual inventory

process

Requirements

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Responsible national entityStatistics Finland

Agreements on inventory:

Subcontract:

Transport Technical Research Centre of

Finland

F-gasesWaste

Finnish Environmental Institute

Agriculture Agrifood Research Finland

Land use change and forestryFinnish Forest Institute

EnergyIndustrial Processes

Compilation and reporting of the inventory

EC MonitoringMechanism& UNFCCC

Co-operation with Government ministries

participating in the preparation of climate policy

Administrative information:

Environmental permits,Emission trading,Traffic

National system for inventory preparation and reporting in Finland

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1. Inventory Planning

2. Inventory Preparation

3. Inventory Evaluation

4. Inventory Improvement

ContinualImprovement

Check Do

PlanAct

•setting quality objectives•specifying necessary processes and resources•elaboration of QA/QC plan•selecting methods and emission factors

•collecting activity data•estimating GHG emissions and removals•implementing uncertainty assessment•recalculations•implementing QC checks•reporting•documenting and archiving inventory material

•implementing QA activities:internal audits, expert peer reviews•reviews of international review teams

•assessing the effectiveness ofthe inventory system•conclusions for future actions

Annual inventory process

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Quality Management process

Actions aimed at attainment of the quality objectives, such as:•Routine checks of the integrity, correctness and completeness of data•Identification of errors and deficiencies•Documentation and archiving of inventory data and quality control actions.

Inspections, reviews, and audits to ascertain thestandard reached inmeeting the quality objectives.

Results from QC and QA, and analyses of observations are utilised to draw conclusions based on facts about actions that are required to improve inventory quality (= i.e. conformance to requirements).

Requirements = Inventory principlesContinual improvement Transparency Consistency Comparability Completeness Accuracy Timeliness

Setting of the standard that is aimed for in the inventory preparation and reporting with regard tothe inventory principles.

Setting of quality objectivesPlanning and

implementation ofquality assurance (QA)

Improvement of qualityPlanning and implementation of quality control (QC)

Descriptions andrecords generatedby quality control actionsWhat outputs andresults did weproduce?

Inventory improvement planWhat improvement actions should we take?

Inspection, review and auditreportsHow did we succeed?Archive

of inventory data and CRFtables

Quality objectivesWhat standard do we aim for?

Quality control plan How do we intend to reach the targets?

QA/QC programme

Quality assurance plan How will the inventory be evaluated?

Records