Quality Assurance (QA) of the National GHG Inventory Management System and National GHG Inventories
24 November 2020, 10:00 - 11:30 (Rome, GMT +2)
This webinar focuses on the “Quality Assurance (QA) of the National GHG Inventory Management System and National GHG Inventories”. It especially looks at the QA activity on the national GHG inventory management system and GHG inventories organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat upon request from developing countries, with the support of FAO.
Participants will learn more about the QA and Quality Control (QC) within the national GHG inventory management system; the UNFCCC Secretariat's QA activity; and how developing countries can participate in the latter.
Main objectives
Highlight the importance of the QA/QC as an integral part of a national GHG inventory management system.
Present the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) requirements for developing and maintaining a national QA/QC system - including developing an improvement plan.
Present the QA activity organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat upon request from developing countries - including its goals and benefits for countries and how they can participate.
Present “country perspectives” on the QA activity based on the feedback from countries that have already undertaken the UNFCCC Secretariat’s QA.
Stimulate interaction between countries on their QA systems, their preparedness level, and their challenges.
Target audience
The main target audience of the webinar are experts and practitioners from CBIT-AFOLU countries (global project and national CBIT). Additional spaces are available for experts joining the FAO Transparency in agriculture and land use sectors network, based on their expressed interest. Relevant materials will be shared with participants before the webinar to prepare for the discussions.
Speakers
Dr. Daniel Tutu Benefoh is a staff member at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana and is a Deputy Director and UNFCCC focal person for Ghana. He works in the EPA's Energy Resources and Climate Change Unit and is responsible for low carbon development, carbon market and transparency issues.
He leads the EPA Ghana team on international climate change reporting, carbon markets, climate finance and innovative financing. He is also the technical lead for the formulation of Ghana's Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to the UNFCCC. He is involved in updating Ghana's NDCs and giving policy advice on climate, the establishment of MRV and M&E systems for climate action, and mobilizing international finance for NDC implementation.
He is also the IPCC focal person for Ghana and the alternate focal point for the climate and clean air coalition (CCAC) and the NDC Partnership. He is a member of the technical advisory team for the National Designated Authority for the Green Climate Fund at the Ministry of Finance. He is a climate change negotiator for Ghana on Articles 13, 6 and 4 issues. At the international level, He serves on the steering committees of the CCAC and the Global Methane Initiative. He is the lead reviewer for the UNFCCC reviews.
Dominique Revet leads the GHG Support Unit at the UNFCCC Secretariat. He has extensive experience in supporting reporting from developing countries, especially in the field of national greenhouse (GHG) inventories and mitigation assessment and actions. His recent activities include supervising regionalcapacity building projects aiming at the establishment of sustainable national GHG inventory management systems,organizing hands-on training workshops on the 2006 IPCC guidelines for national GHG inventories, and leading the work of the UNFCCC Secretariat on strengthening the capacity of developing countries to prepare and manage national GHG inventories as a basis for effective Enhanced Transparency Framework under the Paris Agreement.
He started his professional carrier as a researcher for an international non-governmental organization based in Africa, where he spent 10 years providing technical assistance and support to developing countries in the field of energy planning and development, development of national GHG inventories, and implementing mitigation studies and projects. He then joined the UNFCCC secretariat where he has been a Programme Officer and Team Lead of various Unit; but always in the field of provision of technical support to developing countries.
Iordanis Tzamtzis has been working in the fields of forestry and climate change mitigation since 2008, having a long experience in the MRV of GHG inventories from the AFOLU sector. He was the scientific and technical responsible for the LULUCF sector of Greece for fulfilling all requirements under European and international legislation for 7 years, he supported the development of LULUCF GHG inventories of developing countries and participated in UNFCCC negotiations. He is a UNFCCC lead reviewer of GHG inventories from Annex I Parties as well as a reviewer of Biennial Reports and National Communications, and a reviewer of Biennial Update Reports from non-Annex I Parties (including REDD+). He holds a university degree in Forestry, and a MSc in Environmental Protection and Sustainable Development. He joined FAO in 2019.
Moderator
Alina Gerke is a climate change Knowledge management specialist within the Office of Climate Change, Environment and Biodiversity (OCB) at FAO. She promotes the development and implementation of the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA) and the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF) by working on a communication strategy, information sharing and knowledge material preparation and dissemination. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science and Communications and Digital Marketing and Social Media Studies. Prior to FAO, she has been working for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs,for the European Parliament and the UN. She has collected important work experiences in Public Relations, Communication Outreach, Digital Communications, Campaign work and Event management. At FAO she is a co-founder of the OCB Youth Group. Alina speaks English, Italian, German, and a bit of French.
CONTACTS AND FURTHER INFORMATION
The webinar is organized by the Transparency in agriculture and land use sectors team in FAO's Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment. For more details about the learning event, please contact [email protected].
