National System Templates: Building Sustainable National Inventory Management Systems
From Open Energy Information
| Name: | National System Templates: Building Sustainable National Inventory Management Systems |
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| Agency/Company /Organization: |
United States Environmental Protection Agency, United States Agency for International Development |
| Sector: | Energy, Land |
| Focus Area: | Non-renewable Energy, Forestry, Agriculture
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| Topics: | GHG inventory |
| Resource Type: | Guide/manual, Training materials
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| Website: | www.epa.gov/climatechange/emissions/ghginventorycapacitybuilding/templ
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| References: | National System Templates: Building Sustainable National Inventory Management Systems[1]
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"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."