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National System Templates: Building Sustainable National Inventory Management Systems
U.S. EPA's approach builds a national inventory management system from a set of building blocks, which developing countries can construct using pre-defined "templates." The advantages of the templates are that they:
- Focus on documenting essential information in a concise format and avoid unnecessarily long written reports;
- Standardize tasks, allowing countries within regions to compare and contrast results;
- Accommodate varying levels of national capacity;
- Provide an objective and efficient system for identifying priorities for future improvements;
- Serve as instruction manuals for future inventory teams; and
- Create transparency in a country's national system.
The six National System Templates can be compiled into a single National Inventory System Report of typically less than fifty pages, which provides comprehensive documentation of each of the critical national system building blocks.
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| Name and Description | Example Template | Blank Template |
|---|---|---|
| Key Source Category Analysis (KCA)
The first step in documenting a country's national inventory management system, KCA provides information, according to IPCC criteria, on which sources are the most important and should be the focus of improvement efforts. |
Download (PDF, 11pp., 59 KB) | Download (MS Word, 139 KB) |
| Institutional Arrangements for National Inventory Systems (IA)
Assists inventory teams in assessing and documenting the strengths and weaknesses of existing institutional arrangements for inventory development to ensure continuity and integrity of the inventory, promote institutionalization of the inventory process, and facilitate prioritization of future improvements. |
Download (PDF, 10pp., 58 KB) | Download (MS Word, 178 KB) |
| Documentation and Source-by-Source Description (SBS)
Assists inventory teams in documenting and reporting the origin of methodologies, activity datasets, and emission factors used to estimate emissions from each key source. Future inventory teams can refer to the completed template for each source to determine what information was collected, how the data was obtained, and what methods were used. |
Download (PDF, 7pp., 44 KB) | Download (MS Word, 102 KB) |
| Quality Assurance and Quality Control Measures (QA/QC)
Guides countries through the establishment of a cost-effective QA/QC program to improve transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness, and confidence in national greenhouse gas emission inventories. |
Download (PDF, 8pp., 56 KB) | Download (MS Word, 147 KB) |
| Inventory Archive System
An archive system is an inexpensive yet critical step in the sustainability of the National Inventory System because it serves as a starting point for future inventory teams. |
Download (PDF, 7pp., 59 KB) | Download (MS Word, 140 KB) |
| National Inventory Improvement Plan (NIIP)
Describes specific priorities for future capacity building projects based on the needs identified in the first five templates, and serves as an official national road map for the national inventory. |
Download (PDF, 6pp., 46 KB) | Download (MS Word, 123 KB) |