Consortium of civil society groups that generates emissions estimates
Compare their results vs National Communications (“Natcom”) which include the Biennial Update Report and UNFCCC; 2% differential in 2015 estimates
Go-forward focus areas (per Sep 2019 Workshop presentation) align with our objectives:
Robust inventories
▪Collect disaggregated activity data and develop country-specific emission factors
▪ Periodic, streamlined, accurate reporting to capture on-ground developments and improvements
Climate policies
▪Integration of climate action policies with development goals
▪Capacity building at state-level to support implementation of GHG mitigation actions
Focus on supporting state government who don’t have bandwidth to do a detailed inventory
Aug 17 call
Spoke with Rini and Shubi. Rini is the Senior Manager, Climate and is leading the GHG work.
Raman Mehta is the Programme Director of Vasudha Foundation and he has been overseeing work on emissions estimation of GHG for the AFoLU sector; was not on the call.
Phase 4 estimates started on Aug 1; will extend time series through 2019
Open to working together, I mentioned getting support on total emissions from Agriculture in Bihar based on BAU scenario would be useful
Sent project brief and ideas for collaboration, to followup in a couple weeks
Methodology for how estimates are derived