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B-51.3 Studies on the Assessment of Methodology of National Greenhouse Gas Inventories

[Contact Person]

Yuhei Inamori
Team Head, International Water Environment Renovation Research Team
Regional Environmental Division
National Institute for Environmental Studies
Environmental Agency
16-2 Onogawa, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305 Japan
Tel:+81-298-50-2400, Fax:+81-298-50-2530
E-mail:inamori@nies.go.jp

Total Budget for FY1998

15,762,000Yen

Abstract

Because the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP3) declared that not only CO₂ but CH₄, N₂O, HFC, PFC, and SF₆ are gasses to be reduced, it is now extremely important to make high precision estimates of the emission and absorption of all GHG in order to prepare action plans for the achievement of reduction goals. The gasses and categories of gasses considered by this research study were selected from those in Japan's GHG sources and sinks inventory as ones that should be the object of studies of ways to improve their sources and sinks balance with emphasis on taking action to meet the demands of the Kyoto Protocol, and in particular, those whose estimation in the 1997 greenhouse gas inventory are known to be imprecise, those whose estimation range is incomplete, and those for which new responses are called for under the Kyoto Protocol. The research project involved the collection of GHG data for the above gasses and categories, a study intended to improve emission factors, sources and sinks activities, more appropriate estimation methods, and other related factors, and a study conducted to propose specific improvement methods and to clarify items that should be the objects of concentrated measurement, research, and improvement beginning in the coming year.

[Key words]

COP3, GHG, GHG inventory, IPCC/OECD guideline, developing countries