(v) Promoting the development and sustainable management of sinks and reservoirs of greenhouse gases and

7 National GHG inventories are referred to simply as inventories in these guidelines for the sake of brevity.

Greenhouse gases

Monitoring of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere

(i) Monitoring of GHGs in the atmosphere

For example ISO 14064 on Greenhouse gases, US DOE 1605(b) on General Guidelines for Voluntary Greenhouse Gas Reporting, WRI WBCSD on The Greenhouse Gas Protocol A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard.

The Measurement of Greenhouse Gases

quot Greenhouse gas quot means any greenhouse gas for which a global warming potential (GWP) is set forth in Annex C of this Protocol.

7.4 quot Greenhouse gas quot means any gas with a greenhouse effect not controlled by the Montreal Protocol for which a global warming potential is set forth in Annex C of this Protocol.

quot Greenhouse gas quot means any gas with a greenhouse effect not controlled by the Montreal Protocol for which a GWP is set forth in Annex C of this Protocol.

The Case for Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Agricultural sources of greenhouse gases

It has also followed, as far as possible, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (1994) in preparing its national inventory of greenhouse gases (GHGs) not controlled by the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Greenhouse Gas Technology Information Exchange

However they also act as greenhouse gases.

A country with a higher elasticity of greenhouse gas emissions would therefore share a lower burden in greenhouse gas emission limitation.

Other greenhouse gases (GHG) are not subject to a specific target.

The Executive Board shall consider ways to simplify the information requirements needed to determine that one or more carbon pools and or greenhouse gas emissions can be excluded from the estimation of the baseline net greenhouse gas removals by sinks and or the actual net greenhouse gas removals by sinks.

Traffic management schemes, such as measures designed to encourage optimum traffic flows which reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions from traffic, should be promoted.

It will occur without adding any more greenhouse gasses.

(b) Historical share of greenhouse gas emissions

a) Includes indirect GHG leakages.

A need was expressed for equipment for monitoring GHG and climate.

(c) Creation of the system of monitoring of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

In order to promote the early implementation of a pilot greenhouse gas emissions trading system, UNCTAD and the Earth Council recently launched the Policy Forum on Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading.

Annex D would contain the most recent GWPs, as agreed by the IPCC for greenhouse gases not covered by the Montreal Protocol.

Projecting global GHG emissions methods to estimate future global GHG emissions or removals by sinks

Almost all economic activities affect emissions and some affect the removals of greenhouse gases.

Precursors are atmospheric compounds which themselves are not GHG or aerosols but which have an effect on GHG or aerosol concentrations by taking part in physical or chemical processes regulating their production or destruction rates.

Greenhouse Gas Source and Sink Categories CO2

(b) Remove greenhouse gases by sinks and reservoirs and

Fluorocarbons and other greenhouse gases

Percentage of total greenhouse gas emissions

A. Inventorying GHG emissions and sinks

B. Projections of GHG emissions and sinks

The energy sector was the largest source of GHG emissions for 70 Parties, whereas for 45 Parties the agriculture sector was the largest and for six the waste sector was the largest.

(d) Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in energy production, processing, transportation and distribution

and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol

Farm management techniques in the context of tillage, crop management, water management and chemical inputs are already used by farmers as the means to optimize productivity while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Total GHG emissions of these 18 Parties taken together increased from 1990 to 1995 by about 1.7 per cent, although the trend in total GHGs emissions varied amongst Parties.

Developing and maintaining the GHG information system

Resources for supporting the review of GHG inventories

Impact on greenhouse gas emissions sinks (optional)

II. INVENTORIES OF ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS AND REMOVALS

A. Joint implementation and greenhouse gas emissions trading