In coordination with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)’s Consultative Group of Experts (CGE), the Greenhouse Gas Management Institute recently concluded the delivery of three regional workshops on institutionalizing data management for producing national greenhouse gas inventories. Earlier this month, the 3rd of these workshops in Siem Reap, Cambodia capped the 2019 series that provided training to experts from the global regions of Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and the Pacific Ocean.
The three regional CGE workshops, in Belize, Algeria, and Cambodia, were held to address challenges reported by low and middle-income countries in their national communications and biennial update reports to the UNFCCC. Specifically, countries in each region indicated data management issues when compiling GHG emissions inventories and subsequent reporting protocols in the context of the Paris Agreement. These reported impediments included lack of primary GHG data, issues with the format of available data being collected, lack of human resource capacity, insufficient technical infrastructure to support data collection and management, as well as lack of quality control and quality assurance (QA/QC) protocols to ensure reliable data documentation.


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