Climate MRV for Africa – Phase 2

Development of National GHG Inventory

Introduction IPCC 2006 Software

Project of the European Commission

DG Clima Action EuropeAid/136245/DH/SER/MULTI

Amr Osama Abdel-Aziz, Assen Gasharov, Mike Bess

and Laura Lahti

Team Leader and Key Experts

April 2017

Lead partner

Software Purpose

Implementation of Tier 1 and Tier 2 methodologies in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines

Preparation of national GHG inventories either for complete inventories or separate categories

Users are inventory compilers who wish to apply default 2006 IPCC Guidelines methods

Software Purpose

The software supports functions as:

Database administration

Quality control

Data export/import

Data reporting

Software Functions

Compare to

just using

IPCC Excel

worksheets

for each

category

Multiple Users

Source: IPCC Software, 14-18 March 2016, Maseru, Lesotho

Software Tools

Source: IPCC Software, 14-18 March 2016, Maseru, Lesotho

Defining a New User

Defining a New User (Cont’d)

Exporting and Importing

Source: IPCC Software, 14-18 March 2016, Maseru, Lesotho

Exporting

Export worksheet data

Selecting and exporting part of the current inventory year, i.e. one

or more sectors, sub-sectors or categories into an XML file.

Export CO2 equivalent - exporting of custom (not fixed) CO2

Equivalents into an XML file.

Export NAI Reporting tables - allows calculating and exporting of

the national communication table for Non-Annex I Parties

Uncertainty Analysis

Source: IPCC Software, 14-18 March 2016, Maseru, Lesotho

Uncertainty Analysis

User inputs uncertainty values for activity and emission factor

There is no limit and no check for uncertainty range, i.e. it is the

responsibility of the user to define the appropriate values

Default uncertainty values presented in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for

almost all the default EFs and AD are preloaded as default upper and

lower limits

0 1 2 3

Example Emission Factor

Pro

bab

ility

De

nsity

97.5th

Percentile2.5th

Percentile

Mean

-30% +30%

95%

Probability

Range

Uncertainty Analysis

Uncertainties from disaggregated levels are combined by error

propagation according to 2006 IPCC Guidelines

Key Category Analysis

Software performs key category analysis In terms of contribution to

absolute level of emissions and to trend

Source: IPCC Software, 14-18 March 2016, Maseru, Lesotho

The Worksheet

Source: IPCC Software, 14-18 March 2016, Maseru, Lesotho

The Worksheet (Cont’d)

Source: IPCC Software User Manual

Software provides different options for some parameters (e.g.

emission factors) showing the description of the applicability of each

QA / QC

Source: IPCC Software User Manual

Software provides some QA/QC activities like producing signs for

missing values, and checking the sum of fractions

Important Hints

Source: IPCC Software User Manual

Each database has a user name and password

Don’t forget your user name and password !

Do not remove password protection. Removing the

password protection will prevent the database from

opening in the software

Unify the software version when you work in teams

Thank you!

Amr Osama Abdel-Aziz, Assen Gasharov, Mike Bess and Laura Lahti