2011

This is a summary of the activities carried out in 2011 in the CD-REDD II project by the participating actors. For more Information on past and upcoming events please see the timetable.

Date Meeting
24th - 28th January 2011 Global Workshop: The National System for GHG Inventories
7th - 9th March 2011 Regional Workshop: Eastern and Southern Africa
10th - 13th May 2011 Regional Workshop: South America
27th - 30th June 2011 Training for Trainers: ALU National GHG Inventory Software
19th - 20th September 2011 Technical Project Meeting
4th December 2011 Global Workshop: Progress Assessment

For details on the in-country workshops (CfRN and vTI) please see information below

 

Global Workshop: The National System for GHG Inventories

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Official Title Training Workshop on the National System for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories
Date 24th - 28th January 2011
Venue FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy

At this page you may find a short summary of the first CD-REDD II Global Workshop, a joint effort of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN), UN-REDD/FAO, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI), focused on the National System for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. This training workshop was convened at the FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy, from 24th to 28th of January 2011. Among the participating organizations there were representatives of

  • UN-REDD/FAO
  • CfRN
  • GIZ
  • vTI
  • US EPA
  • UNFCCC
  • IPCC
  • ISPRA
  • Statistics Finland

As a follow up to the kick-off meeting held in Bonn in May 2010, this first CD-REDD II Global Workshop was organised by the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN) in collaboration with GIZ, UN-REDD/FAO, vTI, and UNFCCC.

The workshop informed experts from participating countries on technical requirements and institutional actions needed to establish a national GHG inventory. The attendance of two nationals from each country was striving. In the attempt to identify the most relevant participants, the involvement of, on the one hand, an officer representing an administrative body with the capacity to ensure the setting of the national system in that country, and on the other hand, an expert belonging (or who will belong) to the unit responsible for the GHG inventories and reporting was obtained.

The workshop proceedings are available for download (PDF file, 6MB).

You can find the presentations held at the workshop as video files in the table below (Windows Media Video (WMV)). These videos consist of the presentation overlayed by the voice of the presenter. You may follow the order as given in the agenda of the workshop and click on each topic to open the video (right-click and 'Save as...' saves the video on your machine). Another possibility would be to download the presentation as PDF file. Please click on the '(pdf)' link instead.

Time Topic Speaker & Institution
Mon, 16:00-17:00 Registration
Tue, 08:30-09:00 Registration and distribution of material
Tue, 09:00-09:20 Welcome Mr Peter Holmgren, FAO &
Mr Kevin Conrad, CfRN
Tue, 09:20-09:50 Objectives and Clarifications - Presentation and Q&A (pdf 1, pdf 2) Ms Mihaela Secrieru, CfRN &
Mr Henry Matieu, UN-REDD/FAO
Tue, 09:50-10:20 UNREDD Capacity Building Activities Presentation (pdf) Mr Alberto Sandoval, UN-REDD/FAO
Tue, 10:20-10:50 CDREDD II Activities Presentation (pdf) Mr Bjoern Hecht, GIZ &
Mrs Federica Bietta, CfRN
Tue, 10:50-11:20 Coffee Break
Tue, 11:20-11:50 EPA Capacity Building Activities Presentation (pdf) Mr Tom Wirth, US EPA
Tue, 11:50-12:20 UNFCCC Capacity Building Activities Presentation and Q&A (pdf) Mr Dominique Revet, UNFCCC
Tue, 12:20-13:00 The National System for the GHG Inventory Presentation and Q&A (pdf) Mr Dominique Revet, UNFCCC
Tue, 13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
Tue, 14:30-16:00 The National GHG Inventory Presentation and Q&A (pdf) Mr Simon Eggleston, IPCC
Tue, 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
Tue, 16:30-18:00 Setting up a National Inventory System Presentation (pdf) Mrs Mausami Desai, US EPA
Tue, 16:30-18:00 Reception organised by FAO/NRC
Wed, 09:00-10:30 Institutional Arrangements for National Inventory System Presentation and Q&A (pdf) Mr Sandro Federici, CfRN
Wed, 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Wed, 11:00-12:30 Documentation and category-by-category Description Presentation and Q&A (pdf) Mrs Marina Vitullo, ISPRA
Wed, 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Wed, 14:00-15:30 Key Category Analysis Presentation and Q&A (pdf) Mrs Daniela Romano, ISPRA
Wed, 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Wed, 16:00-17:30 Quality Assurance & Quality Control Presentation (pdf) Mr Karsten Dunger, vTI
Thu, 09:00-10:30 Inventory Archive System Presentation (pdf) Mrs Riitta Pipatti, Head of GHG Inventory Unit, Statistics Finland
Thu, 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Thu, 11:00-12:30 National Inventory Improvement Plan Presentation (pdf) Mr John Venezia, US EPA
Thu, 12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Thu, 14:00-15:00 Questionnaires Analysis Presentation (pdf) Ms Natcha Tulyasuwan, FAO
Thu, 15:00-17:00 Presentations by participant countries on their national inventory systems (challenges, sharing of experiences)
Thu, 17:00-18:00 Follow-up on questionnaires, Meetings with participants
Fri, 09:00-18:00 Meetings among Training Agencies and participants on countries' needs and future Programme activities UN-REDD, CD-REDD II, EPA

This training workshop was followed by two regional workshops

Please follow the links above for more information on the outcomes of the regional workshops.

Delegates from the following countries partcipated in the Rome workshop on the National System for Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories:

Argentina, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Colombia, Congo, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Philippines, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zambia.

In the list above, countries in bold are the CD-REDD II project members. Further In-Country Workshops were implemented in these countries (please refer to 2011).

At the end of 2011, during the COP 17 in Durban, South Africa, the 2nd Global Workshop in the CD-REDD II project was held.

 

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Regional Workshop: Eastern and Southern Africa

Topic Value
Official Title Kick-off Workshop for Sustainable National Greenhouse Gas Management Systems in Eastern and Southern Africa
Date 7th - 9th March 2011
Venue Port Louis, Mauritius

The objective of this workshop was to take stock of past and current activities on GHG inventory work in the participating countries, and assess the needs for additional training and support on techniques, tools and strategies to set up a sustainable GHG inventory management system towards producing transparent and high quality GHG inventories. Emphasis was given to the agriculture and land use related emissions as these sectors are a major contributor of GHG in most of the countries of the region and has generally not received in-depth consideration.

Here you find the Agenda of the event. Some presentatioins are linked, additional material on the workshop could be made available after approval by the organisers.

Time Topic Speaker & Institution
Mon, 7 Mar Project overview, Status of GHG Inventory of participating countries and complementary initiatives
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Welcome and opening addresses Representative, MoE Mauritius &
Mr Dominique Revet , UNFCCC
09:30-10:00 Refreshments
10:00-10:15 Project Context, Overview and Objectives Mr Rasack Nayamuth, Project Coordinator
10:15-10:30 Challenges, Approach and Expected Results Mr Tom Wirth, US-EPA
10:30-12:30 Status of GHG Inventory of participating countries (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion and identification of constraints, gaps and capacity-building needs)
What has been or is being done in terms of Tier level, AD, EF, etc. to allow for a better view of level of support needed by individual countries and intra-project collaboration. Identify commonalities and closer collaboration between participating countries in the region. This will also serve for networking, efficient resource use and as basis for finalizing work programme for the year.
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Status of GHG Inventory of participating countries (continued)
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:00 Capacity Building for National Forest GHG Inventory Systems (CD REDD II) Mr Karsten Dunger, vTI
17:00-17:30 The FAO databases – their usefulness for GHG inventories and the FAO-REDD initiative FAO-REDD Representative
17:30-18:00 Presentation and use of IPCC Emission Factor DataBase IPCC Representative
Tue, 8 Mar Presentation and Initiation on Tools (EPA Templates and ALU Workbook and ALU Software)
08:30-08:40 Summary of Day 1 Mr Rasack Nayamuth, Project Coordinator
08:40-10:15 Presentation and Use of EPA Templates Ms Victoria Thompson, ICF International
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-12:30 Land Use and Mapping; Availability, Quality and Needs Representative of Regional Center for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD)
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 Introduction to ALU Workbook and Software Mr Stephen Ogle &
Mr Daniel Martino, CSU
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:00 Training on use of GPG - Parallel sessions IPCC Representative
17:00-18:00
  • Individual Country Discussions with CSU and US-EPA Teams.
    Aim at already identifying land use or other AD, EF improvement, etc. for country to start working on towards facilitating training on ALU and EPA templates as well as future in-country training
  • Discussion with Forest Experts and vTI Team.
    Aim at presenting and discussing the state of data regarding forest sector, work on forest GHG inventory and identifying possible problems, improvements and need for support from vTI (Defining schedule of individual country discussions on Wednesday)
  • Other Countries to prepare their Discussions in light of updated Workshop Outcomes
Wed, 9 Mar Project Implementation and Contribution of Collaborating Organisations
08:30-08:45 Summary of Day 2 Mr Rasack Nayamuth, Project Coordinator
  Parallel Sessions
08:45-10:45 Individual Country Discussions:
  • 08:45-09:15 : Mauritius
  • 09:15-09:45 : Namibia
  • 09:45-10:15 : Rwanda
  • 10:15-10:45 : South Africa
 Discussions of 2011 Workplan:
All participants except those having individual country sessions
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:15 Individual Country Discussions:
  • 11:15-11:45 : Tanzania
  • 11:45-12:15 : Zambia
12:15-12:30 Contribution of UNEP Dr George Manful
12:30-12:45 Contribution of SADC (tbc)
12:45-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-16:15 Finalization of 2011 workplan Mr Rasack Nayamuth, Project Coordinator
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break
16:45-17:00 Summing up Mr Dominique Revet, UNFCCC
17:00-17:30 Closing session Mr William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, UNFCCC

In Port Louis representatives from different countries and organizations were attending the event:

  • Countries
    • Botswana
    • Malawi
    • Mauritius
    • Namibia
    • Rwanda
    • South Africa
    • Tanzania
    • Zambia
  • Organizations
    • CSU
    • EPA
    • ICF
    • FAO/REDD
    • GIZ
    • IPCC NGGI TSU
    • RCMRD
    • SADC
    • UNEP
    • UNFCCC
    • US Embassy (Mauritius)
    • vTI

Pretty soon after this event the first In-Country Workshops in this Region were carried out! Check out information here.

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Regional Workshop: South America

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Topic Value
Official Title Capacity Development for Sustainable National GHG Inventories - AFOLU Sector,
CD-REDD II Regional Workshop
Date 10th - 13th May 2011
Venue Quito, Ecuador

The main objective of this workshop was to provide training on the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU), with focus on forest-realted GHG fluxes, and to exchange in-depth information about the development of GHG inventories from seven developing countries in order to plan for each country to implement activities scheduled in the framework of the program for 2011.

Here you can find the presentations delivered by the countries, as well as the agenda of this Regional Workshop. In the Agenda, you may click on each topic of your interest and download the presentation as PDF file.

Time Topic Speaker & Institution
Tue, 10 May Project overview, Status of GHG Inventory of participating countries and Training on Sustainable National GHG Inventories – AFOLU Sector
08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30 Welcome and opening addresses Mr Marco Chiu, MoE Ecuador &
Mr Tobias Wittmann, GIZ
09:30-09:45 Workshop Presentation in Project context Ms Mihaela Secrieru, CfRN
09:45-10:15 Refreshments
10:15-10:45 The National System for GHG Inventory Dr Daniela Romano, ISPRA
10:45-11:15 Gerneral Overview of GHG Inventories Mrs Marina Vitullo, ISPRA
11:15-13:05 Status of GHG Inventory of participating countries (15 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion and identification of constraints, gaps and capacity-building needs)
What has been or is being done in terms of Tier level, AD, EF, etc. to allow for a better view of level of support needed by individual countries and intra-project collaboration. Identify commonalities and closer collaboration between participating countries in the region. This will also serve for networking, efficient resource use and as basis for finalizing work programme for the year.
13:05-14:30 Lunch Break
14:30-15:45 Status of GHG Inventory of participating countries (continued)
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 Lesson 1: Reporting Principles & Introducing the Use of 2006 Guidelines Ms Mihaela Secrieru, CfRN
17:00-18:00 Lesson 2: Data Collection & Analysis Dr Daniela Romano, ISPRA
  Welcome Dinner Restaurant Pim's a El Panecillo
Wed, 11 May Training on Sustainable National GHG Inventories - AFOLU Sector
09:00-09:10 Summary of Day 1 Ms Mihaela Secrieru, CfRN
09:10-10:40 Lesson 3: Land Cover and Land Use Mr Erik Lindquist, UNREDD/FAO
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Lesson 4: ALU Tool: Land Representation Prof. Stephen Ogle, CSU
12:40-14:10 Lunch Break
14:10-15:40 Lesson 5: General Methods for Estimating Stock Changes in Carbon Pools Mr Sandro Federici, CfRN
15:40-16:10 Coffee Break
16:10-17:40 Lesson 6: Methods for Estimating Non-CO2 and Lime and Urea Emissions Dr Marina Vitullo, ISPRA
Thu, 12 May Training on Sustainable National GHG Inventories - AFOLU Sector
09:00-09:10 Summary of Day 2 Ms Mihaela Secrieru, CfRN
09:10-10:40 Lesson 7: Forest Land Ms Anke Benndorf, vTI
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
11:10-12:40 Lesson 8: Forest Inventory Mr Steffen Lackmann, CfRN
12:40-14:10 Lunch Break
14:10-16:10 ALU Tool Lessons Prof. Stephen Ogle, CSU
16:10-16:40 Coffee Break
16:40-18:00 ALU Tool Lessons Prof. Stephen Ogle, CSU
Fri, 13 May Individual Country Discussions aimed at preparing for the In-Country Workshops and Training Sessions

Representatives from different countries and organizations attended the event:

  • Countries
    • Ecuador
    • Ghana
    • Guyana
    • Liberia
    • Suriname
  • Organizations
    • CfRN
    • CSU
    • GIZ
    • ISPRA
    • UNREDD/FAO
    • vTI

Following this event, the first series of in-country training sessions were carried out by the cfRN technical team in the different Project countries in this region. Information on these national scale activities are available here.

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Training for Trainers: ALU National GHG Inventory Software

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Technical Project Meeting

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Global Workshop: Progress Assessment

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Official Title 2nd Global Workshop: Progress Assessment
Date 4th December 2011
Venue Riverside Hotel & Spa, Durban, South Africa

In this page you will find a short summary of the 2nd Global Workshop, a joint effort of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations (CfRN), UN-REDD/FAO, Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and Johann Heinrich von Thünen-Institut (vTI), focused on the assessment of progress made throughout the past year (2011) in the participating CD-REDD II project countries. This global workshop took place during COP-17 in Durban, South Africa, on the 4th of December 2011. Among the participating agencies were invitees of:

  • BMU
  • CfRN
  • GEF
  • GIZ
  • UNREDD/FAO
  • vTI

As a follow up to the first Global Workshop: The National System for GHG Inventories held in Rome, January 2011, this workshop was organized by the CfRN in collaboration with GIZ and vTI.

The objective of this global workshop was to assess the state-of-the-art and the progress made in participating countries. Since the project kick-off in June 2010, there have been several activities on global, regional and national level to provide knowledge through specific training on the requirements and elements to implement a GHG inventory, to identify important actors in the inventory process, as well as to support each individual country corresponding to their national circumstances.
This global workshop served as a platform to exchange in-depth information at country level as well as on the current status of the implementation of the national GHG inventory. This will be the basis to plan future activities at national level, to be scheduled in the framework of the project.

The workshop contents were recorded and made available in the same format as those of the first global workshop. You can find the presentations as video files in the table below (Windows Media Video (WMV) files). These videos consist of the presentation overlayed by the voice of the presenter. You may follow the order as given in the agenda of the workshop and click on each topic to open the video, the pdf or you may download the whole package of presentations here (ZIP-Archive, ca 26 MB). If you right-click and choose 'Save as...' you will be able to save the data on your machine.  A workshop report with a summary of the held presentations is available here.

Time Topic Speaker & Institution
08:45-09:15 Registration and Light Breakfast
CD-REDD II Project overview and introduction
09:15-09:30 Welcome and Opening addresses BMU, GIZ, CfRN
09:30-09:45 CD-REDD II Project – Setting the Scene (pdf, video) Ms Federica Bietta, CfRN
Mr Reinhard Wolf, GIZ
09:45-10:00 CD-REDD II Project – Implementation of Activities (pdf, video) Ms Mihaela Secrieru, CfRN
Mr Karsten Dunger, vTI
10:00-10:30 The National Inventory System (pdf, video) Mr Sandro Federici, CfRN
Collaborating Partners and related capacity building activities
10:30-10:45 Presentation - FAO/UNREDD Mr Alberto Sandoval, FAO
10:45-11:00 Presentation - Global Environment Facility (GEF)(pdf, video) Mr Gustavo de Fonseca, GEF
11:00-11:15 Goals and Tools of the EPA GHG Inventory Capacity Building Framework - US-EPA (pdf, video) Mr Steffen Lackmann, CfRN
11:15-11:40 Coffee Break
Greenhouse Gas Inventories – Status reports
  Country presentations based on a standardized outline (Data collection, on-going GHG inventory related activities other than CD-REDD II, expertise availability, struggles and constraints) and Q&A
11:40-12:00 Presentation and Q&A (pdf, video) Undersecretary of Climate Change Ministry of Environment of Ecuador, Ecuador2
12:00-12:20 Presentation and Q&A (pdf, video) Mr R. Somopawiro, Suriname2
12:20-12:40 Presentation and Q&A (pdf, video) Mr Yaw Kwakye, Ghana2
12:40-13:00 Presentation and Q&A (pdf, video) Mr Jongikhaya Witi, South Africa1
13:00-14:30 Lunch Break
Case examples for progress in implementing AFOLU GHG Inventories
  Country presentations on specific steps implemented for establishing GHG Inventories with focus on the AFOLU sector
14:30-14:50 Presentation and Q&A (pdf, video) Mr Victor R. Viñas Nicolás, Dominican Republic2
14:50-15:10 Case Example (pdf, video) Ms Tahira Munir &
Mr Kaleem Anwar Mir, Pakistan
15:10-15:30 Case Example (pdf, video) Mr Diomède Nyengayenge, Burundi
15:30-15:50 Case Example (pdf, video) Mr Joe N Pokana, Papua New Guinea
15:50-16:30 Coffee Break
Wrap-Up Session
16:30-17:30 Coordination and outreach, further steps, recommendations and closing remarks
1 country under the vTI technical team and 2 country under the CfRN technical team for Project implementation

Delegates from the following countries partcipated to the 2nd Global Workshop on Progress Assessment:
Botswana, Burundi, Cambodia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ghana, Guyana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Tanzania, Viet Nam.
(in bold: CD-REDD II Project countries)

Pictures taken during the event are available here for consultation and download.

 

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In-Country Workshops [CfRN]

In the year 2011 the CfRN Staff conducted In-Country Training Workshop 'Agriculture and Land Use (ALU) National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Software and Other Inventory Tools' in several countries:

Date Venue
1st - 4th August 2011 Accra, Ghana, Africa
8th - 12th August 2011 Abuja, Nigeria, Africa
12th - 16th September 2011 Monrovia, Liberia, Africa
10th - 14th October 2011 Quito, Ecuador, South America
17th - 21st October 2011 Paramaribo, Suriname, South America
24th - 28th October 2011 Georgetown, Guyana, South America
31st October - 4th November 2011 Buenos Aires, Argentina, South America

You can find additional information on the in-country workshops, such as a summary of the evaluation, on the following pages.

 

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In-Country Workshops [vTI]

In the year 2011 the vTI staff conducted In-Country Training Workshop 'Agriculture and Land Use (ALU) National Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Software and Other Inventory Tools' in several countries:

Date Venue
15th - 17th June 2011 Lusaka, Zambia, Africa
20th - 22nd June 2011 Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa
27th - 29th July 2011 Pretoria, South Africa, Africa
2nd - 4th November 2011 Windhoek, Namibia, Africa
7th - 9th November 2011 Gaborone, Botswana, Africa
10th - 12th November 2011 Pretoria, South Africa, Africa (mission trip)

You can find additional information on the in-country visits such as a summary of the evaluation on the following pages (login required).

 

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