13-14 November 2014, FAO, Rome

FAO, IPCC and IFAD jointly organized this expert meeting to discuss the use of FAO data and IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines for AFOLU with a view on emerging activities to combat climate change. The expert meeting followed a 2009 joint FAO-IPCC-IFAD event, organized to discuss datasets for use in the IPCC Guidelines – FAO data and how it can be used in the IPCC Agriculture and Land Use Guidelines. 

The event considered the following topics:

• How FAO datasets can help in AFOLU inventory compilation using the IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines by providing activity data, EFs and other parameters and facilitating quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC) and verification needs;
• How the information on international, predominately FAO, datasets (that were first compiled at a joint FAO-IPCC-IFAD meeting in 2009) could be continuously updated and made available to relevant user-groups for estimating emissions and removals of greenhouse gases from the AFOLU sector;
• How the FAO datasets and IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines could be used beyond GHG National inventories, for purposes such as mitigation analysis for agriculture and land use at national and project scale;
• How to effectively develop required capacities to use FAO datasets and IPCC GHG Inventory Guidelines.

This expert meeting took place side-by-side with the IPCC Emission Factor Database Meetings (November 10-12), and a workshop on reducing the costs of GHG estimates in agriculture to inform low emissions development, jointly organized by FAO and CCAFS (November 10-12).

The meeting was funded by the Government of Norway, via the MAGHG Project, and the IPCC.