Black carbon (BC) is a key short-lived climate forcer and an air pollutant with significant impacts on human health. Although reporting of BC emissions remains voluntary under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution, 42 Parties submitted BC data in 2024. This report assesses the completeness, methodological consistency and comparability of reported BC emissions and compares nation...

The Conference of the Parties (COP), by decision 24/CP.19, adopted the “Guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I to the Convention, Part I: UNFCCC reporting guidelines on annual greenhouse gas inventories” (UNFCCC Annex I inventory reporting guidelines) and tables of the common reporting format to implement the use of the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for Nat...

This document contains the guidelines for reporting emissions and projections data under the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution as adopted for application in 2015 and subsequent years. These guidelines are a revised version of the Guidelines for Reporting Emission data under the Convention (ECE/EB.AIR/97), which were approved by the Executive Body in 2008 (ECE/EB.AIR/96, para. 83...

Developing a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory is an important first step toward managing emissions. A complete and transparent national GHG inventory is an essential tool for understanding emissions and trends, projecting future emissions and identifying sectors for cost-effective emission reduction opportunities. A national GHG inventory is also a core element of reporting under the United Nations ...

Developing a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory is an important first step toward managing emissions. A complete and transparent national GHG inventory is an essential tool for understanding emissions and trends, projecting future emissions and identifying sectors for cost-effective emission reduction opportunities. A national GHG inventory is also a core element of reporting under the United Nations ...

EPA develops an annual report called the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (Inventory), that tracks U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks by source, economic sector, and greenhouse gas going back to 1990. EPA has prepared the Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks since the early 1990s. This annual report, provides a comprehensive accounting of total greenhouse g...

This road traffic Emissions Factors Toolkit (EFT) user guide has been compiled by Bureau Veritas in the role of Project Manager for the Local Air Quality Management (LAQM) Helpdesk and should be used in conjunction with Version 13.1 of the Toolkit.The EFT is published by Defra and the Devolved Administrations to assist local authorities in carrying out Review and Assessment of local air quality as...

This presentation is part of the Hands-on training Workshop on National GHG Inventory delivered by the Capacity-building Initiative for Transparency - Global Support Programme (CBIT-GSP). It covers the cross-cutting components of national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory development, including institutional arrangements, data collection, and quality assurance/quality control (QA/QC). It outlines the...

The ICP Forests Monitoring Manual documents the harmonized methods for sampling and analysis as adopted by the participating countries of ICP Forests.Part I: Objectives, strategy and implementation of ICP ForestsPart II: Basic design principles for the ICP Forests monitoring networksPart III: Quality assurance within the ICP Forests monitoring programmePart IV: Visual assessment of crown condition...

The System of Environmental-Economic Accounting – Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) is a spatially based, integrated statistical framework for organizing biophysical information on ecosystems, measuring ecosystem services, tracking changes in ecosystem extent and condition, valuing ecosystem services and assets and linking this information to measures of economic and human activity. SEEA EA was devel...