Quality Management in the Finlands Greenhouse Gas Inventory

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Quality Management in the Finlands Greenhouse
Gas Inventory

• Leena Raittinen, Statistics Finland
• UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems
• 11-12 April 2005
• Bonn, Germany

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Quality - What is it all about?

• Quality is not a thing but a relation
• Quality is the relationship between intention and
  outcome

High quality of the inventory is in practice
conformance to requirements
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Quality strategy for the Finnish GHG inventory
system
Requirements

• quality requirements for the GHG inventory are
  integrated directly to the National system
  annual inventory process
• no separate QM system
• all parties of the national system are
  responsible for the quality of their own
  inventory calculations
• documentation provides confidence in the
  conformity of the system to the requirements

Documentation
Documentation
Implementation
National system
Annual inventory process
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National system for inventory preparation and
reporting in Finland
Responsible national entityStatistics Finland
EC Monitoring Mechanism UNFCCC
Compilation and reporting of the inventory
Sector and emission specific calculationsExpert
organisations
Energy Industrial Processes
Subcontract
Administrative information Environmental
permits,Emission trading,Traffic
Transport Technical Research Centre of Finland
Co-operation with Government ministries
participating in the preparation of climate
policy
Agreements on inventory
F-gases Waste Finnish Environmental Institute
Agriculture Agrifood Research Finland
Land use change and forestry Finnish Forest
Institute
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Annual inventory process
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Quality Management process