Since the UNFCCC has made significant progress in guidelines and review guideline of national reports; in end of 2012, Taiwan EPA convened the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory committee and hosted several review meetings. Till end of 2013, five consulting review meeting were successfully held. The committee decided to initiate editing procedure for Taiwan National Greenhouse Gas Inventory in order to comply with the rule request of the UNFCCC. To this end, this project will keep following the developing trend of guidelines and international emission situation. The project will also assist Taiwan EPA to construct and promote systematic working mechanisms for national greenhouse gas inventory through hosting consulting review meetings under the 2006 IPCC guideline. The duration for this project is from April 2, 2014 to December 31, 2014. The project will expend and maintain the web registry platform of Taiwan’s national greenhouse gas inventory, invite international experts, perform national expert training courses, conduct ICA for Taiwan’s accomplishment in the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory report. The tasks of this project cover comprehensive fields including operation mechanism and web-basis registry platform establishment. It is expected to overall improve technical capacity on national greenhouse gas inventory. The main objectives achieved by this project include: 1. Analyze the regulation content, review progress and international emission trends for national greenhouse gas inventory under the UNFCCC. In the aspect of the criteria of national greenhouse gas inventory, this project analysis the technical review guideline for national greenhouse gas inventory, biennial report, and national communication for annex 1 countries under UNFCCC. Matching the above technical review guideline and the component, criteria, and proceed for technology expert for biennial updated report of non-annex 1 countries, this project suggests the plan for compiling Taiwan biennial updated report under UNFCCC. Beside this project studies the outcome of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI), including “2013 Supplement to the 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands” and “2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol” In the aspect of the trend and indicators of international greenhouse gas, this project provides the newest information on international energy-environment-economy, analysis the international indicator comparison of greenhouse gas emission and energy use, and studies the ranking of CCPI and CRI published by GermanWatch and CAN. The ranking for Taiwan is relative steady. 2. Assist Taiwan EPA to organize the consulting review meetings, and improve statistics quality on Taiwan’s national greenhouse gas inventory. This project host 9 discussing meeting with the ministries and their think tanks for discussing and preparing inventory review meetings. This year for matching EPA, this project assists 3 inventory review meetings and helps operating the review mechanism for inventory. The project is successful for compiling “2014 Republic of China (Taiwan) Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report” and its executive summary in English, inventory brochure in English and Chinese, the visionlized webpages, and the website for national inventory report. According to our inventory report, Taiwan’s total GHG emissions increased from 136,681 kilotons of carbon dioxide equivalents (excluding removal) in 1990 up to 270,682 kilotons of carbon dioxide equivalents (excluding removal) in 2012, with emission increased by 98.04% at an average annual growth rate of 3.15%. The total emission in 2012 is lowered than the previous year by 2.03%. Besides, the project also integrates 1990-2013 GHG inventory based on 2006 IPCC Guideline for national GHG inventory for Taiwan. This project makes significant contribution on improving statistics quality on Taiwan’s national greenhouse gas inventory and operation the review mechanism. 3. Expand and maintain the web-basis registry platform of Taiwan’s national greenhouse gas inventory, and complete function tests. This project hosts two workshops and one meeting for discussing the functional test of the web-basis registry platform. For the web-basis registry platform, there are 7 items to be expanding, including (1) file mass uploading function; (2) adding ‘other’ item on inventory review area and sectoral input area; (3) expanding ‘comment output’ function on comment reply of sectoral input area; (4) adding ‘email alarm’ function on comment reply of sectoral input area; (5) decomposing the AFOLU excel file to four parts; (6) adding the ‘references’ webpage on information area; (7) adding ‘uploaded file list’ function on sectoral input area. The web-basis registry platform open to the ministries and their think tanks for uploading the data files for the duration from 1990 to 2013. Besides, this project also provides first edition of handbook for the web-basis registry platform for reference to the ministries and their think tanks and inventory reviewers. 4. Promote ICA on Taiwan’s national greenhouse gas inventory, perform national expert training courses, and enhance overall capacity building. The project studies the MRV criteria under the UNFCCC from its history and the current status, including the guideline of IAR and ICA, expert team under the UNFCCC, and the MRV process for NAMAs. The above analysis reveals the progress of this issue. In the aspect of training workshop for domestic expert on national GHG inventory and ICA meeting, this project is successful to invite two international experts, one is Stephen Ogle from USA and the other is Takeshi Enoki from Japan, for coming to Taiwan. And The relative agenda on Sept. 29 and 30 is to be planned by this project and international experts. Unfortunately two experts cannot come to Taiwan due to schedule conflict with EPAs. The project team still keeps contact with two experts and establish the channel with them.

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