US EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems 1. Inventory Planning

In the U.S. EPA Toolkit for Building National GHG Inventory Systems (‘Toolkit’), this is Template 1. Its purpose is to explain how to use the Toolkit and provides tables to develop a national GHG inventory schedule and track progress with completing each template in the series. This template helps the National GHG Inventory Coordinator (NIC) initiate and manage inventory planning and provides a table to record due dates for key compilation stages.1 This template can facilitate GHG inventory planning for current (i.e., Biennial Update Report, National Communications) and future (i.e., Biennial Transparency Report, National Communications) reporting under the Enhanced Transparency Framework2 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).