Presentation from September 2020 CCXG Forum

1. GHG inventories (Part II):
Examples for Operationalising
Application of MPG Flexibility
Provisions in Reporting
Presentation at CCXG
Mausami Desai
Office of Atmospheric Programs
September 15, 2020

2. Operationalizing application of MPG Flexibility
Provisions
• Examples build from current experience electronic
Common Reporting Formats (CRF) for GHG
Inventories
• Promote inventory principles (i.e. TACCC) per
MPG para. 17
• CRTs show quantitative inventory data, emissions, and
supporting documentation to understand how
emissions were calculated
• Standard, common tabular format for reporting
quantitative inventory background data but still
accommodates different national circumstances
(i.e. including varying levels disaggregated input
data and completeness, etc.)
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GREENHOUSE GAS SOURCE
AND SINK CATEGORIES AGGREGATE ACTIVITY DATA
Consumption
(TJ) NCV/GCV(3)
1.A. Fuel combustion
Liquid fuels
Solid fuels
Gaseous fuels
Other fossil fuels(4)
Peat(5)
Biomass(6)
GREENHOUSE GAS SOURCE AND SINK
CATEGORIES
Total Energy
A. Fuel combustion activities (sectoral
approach)
1. Energy industries
a. Public electricity and heat production
b. Petroleum refining
c. Manufacture of solid fuels and other
energy industries

3. Options to Operationalize Application of MPG
Flexibility Provisions
• Key considerations in identifying options
• Promotes transparency, accuracy, consistency, comparability and completeness inventory
principles defined in 2006 IPCC Guidelines
• Facilitate TER
• E.g. in general, deletion of rows/columns contradicts above principles, creates uncertainty about scope
of inventory to users of inventory data and reviewers
• Primary options from reporting experience/practice used by all countries, including
• Notation keys (e.g. add new notation keys e.g. “FX” and “NE-FX”)
• Documentation boxes
• Documentation tables
• Footnotes
• Combination of options could enhance clarity for users/reviewers of information
• E.g. may help to apply notation key along with footnote citing MPG flexibility provision
• Further facilitate/automate use of options using existing CRF Reporter functions (see
examples), potential minor refinements
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4. Reporting application of MPG flexibility provision
in CRTs: Time Series
• Country X has capacity constraints
in estimating consistent time
series (i.e. data is not available to
recalculate to estimate all years,
e.g. from 1990)
• Need further thinking on options
for reporting on application of
time series flexibilities
• Example implications for CRTs
shown (facilitated by software)
• NID shows years estimated with
a footnote referring to CRT below
• Documentation can be added to
a CRT table to clearly indicate
the flexibility provision
application per MPG para. 6 (see
example)
Example CRT
Submission
Report CRTs for
inventory years that
are estimated per
MPGs, generated
by software
Example Entries in Trend CRTs
TABLE 10 EMISSION TRENDS
GHG CO2 eq emissions
(Sheet 1 of 6) EXAMPLE
COLUMN
EXAMPLE
COLUMN
EXAMPLE
COLUMN
GREENHOUSE GAS SOURCE AND SINK
CATEGORIES
1990 1991 … 2005
Total (net emissions)(2)
FX FX … 15800.00
1. Energy FX FX … 17200.00
A. Fuel combustion (sectoral approach) FX FX … 16100.00
1. Energy industries FX FX … 7000.00
2. Manufacturing industries and construction FX FX … 4500.00
3. Transport FX FX … 2000.00
4. Other sectors FX FX … 2500.00
5. Other FX FX … 100.00
B. Fugitive emissions from fuels FX FX … 1100.00
1. Solid fuels FX FX … 1000.00
2. Oil and natural gas and other emissions from
energy production FX FX … 100.00
C. CO2 transport and storage FX FX … NO
2. Industrial Processes FX FX … 1700.00
A. Mineral industry FX FX … 1000.00
B. Chemical industry FX FX … 200.00
C. Metal industry FX FX … 500.00
D. Non-energy products from fuels and solvent
use FX FX … NE-FX
E. Electronic industry FX FX … NO
F. Product uses as ODS substitutes FX FX … NO
G. Other product manufacture and use FX FX … NE-FX
H. Other FX FX … NA
3. Agriculture FX FX … 2000
Use of notation key “FX” for years
not reported, could be
automated in software with
selection of years reported in
time series
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5. Reporting application of MPG flexibility provision in CRTs: Key Category Analysis
TABLE 7 SUMMARY OVERVIEW FOR KEY CATEGORIES (1) Inventory 2024
(Sheet 1 of 1) Submission 2021 v1
[Insert COUNTRY]
KEY CATEGORIES OF EMISSIONS AND REMOVALS Gas
Criteria used for key
source identification
Key category
excluding
LULUCF
Key category
including LULUCF
L T
Threshold used: e.g. 85%(2)
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Liquid Fuels CO2 X X X X
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Liquid Fuels CH4
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Liquid Fuels N2O
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Solid Fuels CO2 X X X X
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Solid Fuels CH4
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Solid Fuels N2O
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Gaseous Fuels CO2 X X X X
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Gaseous Fuels CH4
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Gaseous Fuels N2O
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Other Fossil Fuels CO2
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Other Fossil Fuels CH4
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Other Fossil Fuels N2O
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Peat CO2
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Peat CH4
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Peat N2O
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Biomass CH4
1.A.1 Fuel combustion - Energy Industries - Biomass N2O
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Liquid Fuels CO2 X X X X
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Liquid Fuels CH4
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Liquid Fuels N2O
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Solid Fuels CO2 X X X X
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Solid Fuels CH4
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Solid Fuels N2O
1.A.2 Fuel combustion - Manufacturing Industries and Construction - Gaseous Fuels CO2 X X X X
… …
5.D Wastewater Treatment and Discharge CH4 FX FX
…
(2)As provided in paragraph 25 of the Annex to 18/CMA.1, those developing country Parties that need flexibility in the light of their
capacities with respect to this provision have the flexibility to instead identify key categories using a threshold no lower than 85 per cent in
place of the 95 per cent threshold defined in the IPCC guidelines referred to in paragraph 20 of decision 18/CMA1.
Note: L = Level assessment; T = Trend assessment.
(1) …
• Country X, in light of current
capacities, needs to use lower
threshold to focus improvement
efforts more significant key
categories
• Build from Summary KCA table in
current CRF to indicate flexibility
provision application
• Documentation can be added to a
CRT table to clearly indicate the
flexibility provision application per
MPG para. 6 (see example)
Allow compiler to select
threshold used in reporting
software.
Automate addition of footnote to
CRT with reference to MPGs when
threshold is between 85 and 95%
Automate application of new notation key
(e.g. FX) to indicate categories that would
be identified using 95% threshold for
transparency and to help Country X
identify potential improvement areas
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6. Example CRT: Information on Application of MPG Flexibility Provisions
MPG Flexibility Provision
Applied
(Y/N)
Brief description on application of
flexibility
Indicate Capacity Constraint
Self-Determined Time Frame for
Improvements in relation to
capacity constraint
Where to find more
information in NIR
Key Category Analysis (add
MPG Annex II paragraph 25)
Y Country X has applied a lower threshold of
85% to identify fewer key categories to help
prioritize and focus both improvement and
capacity enhancement efforts.
Capacity constraints to improve methods and
data for broader set of key categories if a higher
threshold is applied. Higher threshold identifies
X additional categories. Improving X additional
categories will impact improvements for more
significant categories…etc.
Country X anticipates addressing
constraints to enable application of 95%
threshold in identifying KCs NIR3
submission in 2028.
See NID Chapter 1.
Introduction and Annex 1
(pp. 20, and p. A-2). See
also CRT 7.
Completeness (add MPG Annex
II paragraph 32)
Y Country X has applied a higher threshold
indicated in MPGs to assess significance.
Based on significance assessment, Country X
has not estimated source/sink category
emissions/removals identified in CRT 9 listed
under “NE-FX” row.
Capacity constraints by category are as follows
• [E.g. Activity data on lubricant, paraffin wax
consumption is not available to estimate for
reported time series for these insignificant
sources/sink. A study by Energy Department
provided surrogate data for single year
(2015) to assess emissions are insignificant
using higher threshold]
Country X anticipates addressing
capacity constraints to allow use of
common MPG provision significance
threshold in NIR2 in submission 2026.
See category-level
significance assessment
in NID Annex 5 (p. A-
100). See also CRT 9.
Uncertainty Assessment (add
MPG Annex II paragraph 29 )
Y Country X reported a qualitative discussion of
uncertainty assessment for the starting year
for all source/sink categories and totals.
Country X has also not reported the
quantitative trend uncertainty. Quantitative
estimates are reported for all categories for
latest inventory year.
Capacity constraints in availability of
quantitative inputs for all categories related to
start year, in addition to technical capacity
constraints to compile uncertainty analysis
necessitate reporting only qualitatively
information on starting year uncertainties for all
categories and totals.
Country X anticipates addressing
capacity constraints to enable reporting
of quantified uncertainties for all
categories NIR4 submission in 2030.
See NID Chapter 1.
Introduction (pp. 25),
NID Chapter 10
Improvement Areas, and
Annex 2.
Quality assurance/quality control Plan
(add MPG Annex II paragraph 34)
N NA NA NA NA
Quality assurance/quality control
procedures
(add MPG Annex II paragraph 35)
N NA NA NA NA
Gases reported
(add MPG Annex II paragraph 48)
Y [Add information] [Add information] [Add information] [Add information]
Time series (Reporting period)
(add MPG Annex II paragraph 57)
Y [Add information] [Add information] [Add information] [Add information]
Time series (Latest reporting year)
(add MPG Annex II paragraph 58)
N NA NA NA NA
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7. Thank you!
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