Climate Finance

Describe the likely roles and key responsibilities for each Sector Lead for a national GHG inventory. The primary role of each Sector Lead is to manage and coordinate development of GHG emission and removal estimates for their respective sector.

This document describes the potential responsibilities of the National GHG Inventory Coordinator (NIC), depending on existing institutional arrangements and national circumstances. It also specifies the qualifications that the NIC ideally will possess in order to effectively manage and coordinate development of a National GHG Inventory. 

This document provides a template for drafting a National Inventory Inception Memorandum (Memo).  This memo, when customized to your national circumstances, can be distributed by the National Inventory Coordinator (NIC) to provide guidance and convey the schedule to those working on the National GHG inventory. This document is part of the GHG data repository tool, which key members of a national inventory team (such as full time staff, part time staff, or consultants) may use to design and develop a sustainable inventory system.

The purpose of this template is to help you establish or improve the institutional arrangements (IA) that are the foundation of your national GHG inventory management system. The template helps countries develop, maintain, and improve management and reporting of inventory arrangements and is consistent with guidance under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF)¹ for national GHG inventories.

The purpose of this template is to explain how to use the GHG data repository tool and provides tables to develop a national GHG inventory schedule and track progress with completing each template in the series. This template helps the National GHG Inventory Coordinator (NIC) initiate and manage inventory planning and provides a table to record due dates for key compilation stages.