CGE WORKSHOP St Mary

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CGE WORKSHOPSt Marys Antigua and
Burbuda21 to 23 March 2011

• LESSONS LEARNT AND GOOD PRACTICE FOR
  REPORTING OF NATIONAL COMMUNICATIONS BY NAI

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BACKGROUND

• In order to fulfil part of Work
  Programme of the CGE Mandate(FCCC/SBI/2010/inf
  .2) of synthesizing lessons learnt and
  collate good practices for reporting of  
  National Communications, 
• Key selected indicators have been  identified 
  from User Manual for Guidelines on NCs
  from NAI for various sections of National
  Communication for NAI Parties,  which   
  represent  a fair contribution  to  good 
  practice  articulation.
• These  key indicators  have been   
  qualitatively assessed/collected  from SNC 
  reports of  selected NAI Parties  which have
  so far  submitted their NCs, and  from other
  groups work to avoid duplication.
• The Matrix developed can enable a reasonable
  fair comparison of good practices and challenges
  across NAI countries who have submitted their SNC
• This process may assist in identification
  of challenges which require sharing among
  Parties aimed at improving reporting of NCs.

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KEY INDICATORS
National Circumstances (NC) National Circumstances (NC)
Indicator Number
1 Features from national circumstances affecting and/or being affected by climate change
2 Institututional arrangements
3 Summary Table of key relevant information on national circumstances
GHG Inventories (GHG) GHG Inventories (GHG)
1 Institutional arrangements
2 Key category analysis
3 National Inventory Management System-QA/QC and Uncertainty assessments
4 IPCC methodological guidelines and Guidance
5 Riding the Tier ladder
6 Difficulties in collecting activity data
7 Complete coverage of gases and Summary table
8 Coverage of all sectors
9 Allocation of GHG estimates and time series
10 Use of Notation keys
11 Choice of emission factor
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KEY INDICATORS
VA VA
1 Institutioanl arrangements
2 Current vulnerabity of sectors based on historical climate data
3 Use of models
4 Selection/prioritisation of adaptation projects tools/methods
5 Socio economic impacts from climate change
6 Policy Framework
Mitigation Mitigation
1 Institutional arrangements
2 Use of models
3 Use of marginal costing models/methods
4 Mitigation potential and cost of mitigation
5 Integration of GHG reductions and cosst through marginal costing analysis
6 Macro economic assessment of climate change
Other relevant information Other relevant information
1 Integrating/mainstraming into development plans
2 Status of activities related to technology transfer
3 Status of activities related to research and systematic observation
4 Status of activities related to education, training and public awareness
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RESULTS

• 90 of the Parties assessed included in
  the NC, information on institutional
  arrangements for preparation of National
  Circumstances and distribution of
  responsibilities
• Only 19.4 and 40 of attained indicators,
  included in the NC description of relevant
  features from national circumstances
  affecting and/or being affected by climate
  change, and insertion of a Summary Table of
  key relevant information.

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RESULTS-GHG INVENTORY

• Over 80 of Parties attained good practice
  reporting on inclusion of information on
  description of institutional arrangements for
  preparation of GHG inventory, use of
  higher-tier methods, and coverage of all
  sectors, respectively
• There was moderate coverage of indicators of
  around 60 related to complete coverage of
  gases including indirect gases and inclusion
  of Summary Table, and time series analysis.

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RESULTS-GHG Inventory

• There were, however, challenges with
  attainment performance of below 50 on
  undertaking comparison of Reference and
  Sectoral Approaches, key category analysis,
  institution of National Inventory Management
  System including QA/QC and uncertainty
  assessments, and combined use of Revised
  1996 IPCC Guidelines, IPCC Good Practice
  Guidance 2000, and Good Practice Guidance
  for LULUCF 2003.

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RESULTS VA

• There was good practice reporting on
  inclusion of information on institutional
  arrangements for preparation of VA, and
  use of GCM/RCM models for developing CC
  projection scenarios and impact assessment
  based either on models or expert judgment
  with over 80 attainment, and to some
  extent inclusion of Policy Framework
• The challenge, however, remained with
  application of either multi criteria
  analysis and/or cost benefit analysis for
  prioritisation of projects from the normally
  long lists of adaption projects being
  recommended.

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RESULTS-MITIGATION

• There were good efforts to include in the
  NC information related to mitigation
  strategy and plan, and use of tools for
  baseline and mitigation scenarios development
  with 70 and 52, respectively.
• There was, however, less assessment of
  cost of mitigation, and integration of GHG
  reductions and costs through construction
  of marginal cost curves with below 20
  attainment performance and completely no
  coverage on macroeconomic assessment of
  climate change mitigation.

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RESULTS- OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• There was good attainment of inclusion on
  status on information technology transfer,
  research and systematic observation, and
  activities related to education, training
  and public awareness with 90 attainment
• Under this section, the challenge remains
  with integrating and/or mainstreaming climate
  change into development plans

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RESULTS-SUMMARY PERFORMANCE ATTAINMENT
Attainment range lt50 50 to 59 60 to 69 Over 70 Total
Number in range 13 4 10 4 31
Comments ( Total) 42 13 32 13 100
If over 60 can be regarded as good
practice threshold, results of this
analysis indicate that 45 of the Parties
assessed had made efforts in their
reporting with good practice, and 55 had
challenges in fulfilling good practice
during reporting of NCs.