The Greenhouse Gas Data Management (GHG-DM) Tool

The Paris Agreement’s Enhanced Transparency Framework requires countries to report on their progress in mitigating and adapting to climate change. This includes compiling greenhouse gas emissions and removals from all sources and sinks in their territories. However, it is not always easy to identify and compile the necessary data and parameters since they are distributed among different providers, and definitions and frequency may differ. Furthermore, GHG inventory compilers are sometimes overwhelmed by the length and complexity of the 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Guidelines (IPCC). This tool will help them have a more concise picture of what data is needed and how to manage them.

This excel-based package helps GHG inventory compilers manage the information related to the activity data and parameters in the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU); energy; industrial processes and product use (IPPU); and waste sectors. Each excel file contains a comprehensive list of activity data and parameters, that must be collected to estimate,mostly at Tier 1, all categories within these sectors. This tool helps GHG inventory compilers:

• understand what data is needed for estimating emissions from the sector;
• collect information on sources of the required data;
• communicate with data providers on the definitions and units of the data; and
• improve the transparency and replicability of the estimates. This tool must be used in conjunction with the 2006 IPCC Guidelines which further explain what information is needed.

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The Greenhouse Gas Data Management (GHG-DM) Tool

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