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List of common issues and possible solutions, by sector [11] |
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| Sector |
Types |
Identified common issues |
Suggested possible solutions |
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| Energy |
Activity data |
Collection of data |
- Sharing experiences specifically relevant to the areas of transportaion, power plant, and heavy industry |
| Emission factors |
Development of improved emission factors |
- Making tables for the values of local emission factors in Asia with assumptions adopted |
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| Quality assuarance and quality control (QA/QC) |
Implementation of QA/QC |
- Creating different database for comparison - Recording routine process and assignments of each implementing agency |
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| Uncertainty assessment |
Implementation of uncertainty assessment |
- Following up and updating data and information |
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| Agriculture |
Emission factors |
Development of regional specific emission factors |
- Implementing regional research projects - Enhancing collaboration among experts - Sharing database and experience |
| Monitoring |
Establishment of network for GHG emissions monitoring |
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| Financial resource |
Acquisition of funding for research and capacity development activities |
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| Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) |
Activity data |
Adjustment of different level of details of forest categories and strata between states and provinces |
- Encouraging local research agencies and universities to conduct research and receive endorsement from relevant authority for the work |
| Emission (Removal) factors |
Determination of the appropriate number of destructive sampling that is cost-effective |
- Obtaining additional data from other information sources, such as national inventories of other countries in the region |
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| Uncertainty |
Development of good activity data and emission factors for the key categories, which may be cost-ineffective |
- Applying the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in regions and/or provinces that significantly contribute to the emissions of the categories |
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| Institutional arrangements |
Frequent change of personnel engaged in inventory development |
- Institutionalising inventory work, at least at the level of national focal point - Developing manuals in local language |
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| Waste |
Activity data |
Collection of data, such as accurate waste generation amounts and degraded organic carbon |
- Encouraging local research agencies and universities to do site measurements in waste areas and to collect detailed information of waste treatment management levels - Seeking support from local/relevant authorities for inventory work (etc.) |
| Emission factors |
Development of improved emission factors in different countries or regions |
- Getting additional data from other information sources, such as national inventories of other countries in the region (etc.) |
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| Uncertainty |
Development of reliable activity data and emission factors, which can reduce uncertainty |
- Applying the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in regions and/or provinces that significantly contribute to the emissions of the categories (etc.) |
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| Institutional arrangements |
Inconsistency of working groups in the waste sector at the domestic and international levels |
- Developing manuals in local languages - Establishing an international network for cooperating in the waste sector (etc.) |
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Umemiya Carbon Balance and Management 2006 1:9 doi:10.1186/1750-0680-1-9 |
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