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VERTIC
and REC workshop on UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol monitoring and reporting
requirements, Budapest, Hungary, 9-10 October 2006
VERTIC and the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern
Europe (REC) held a workshop on 'Fulfilling
the monitoring and reporting requirements under the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol:
Facilitating appropriate and effective monitoring and reporting procedures
and capacity building in Central Eastern and South Eastern Europe, the
Russian Federation and Turkey' in Budapest, Hungary on 9-10 October 2006.
The objective of the
workshop was to assist the invited Parties in their efforts to fulfill
their respective monitoring and reporting requirements under the UNFCCC
and Kyoto Protocol. The workshop provided a forum where the monitoring
and reporting requirements were discussed, problems of implementation
by Parties identified and the solutions found. The workshop focused on
compliance with Kyoto Protocol monitoring and reporting requirements by
EIT countries as well as non-Annex I monitoring and reporting issues.
Parties' monitoring and reporting capacity building needs and ways to
meet these needs were identified and discussed.
The topics addressed
in the workshop included:
• Monitoring and reporting requirements under the UNFCCC and Kyoto
Protocol
• Initial review, annual review and compliance procedures
• Eligibility requirements
• Assigned amounts
• New reference manual on reporting and review
• Base year issues
• Greenhouse gas inventories: examining issues in each inventory
sector
• Party case-studies
Agenda
Participant
List
Presentations
Welcome Session
Opening
remarks from the co-organizer of the workshop
Mr. Michael Crowley, Executive Director, VERTIC
Session 1:
Dealing with the UNFCCC and Kyoto Protocol monitoring and reporting
architecture
Accounting
for emissions and assigned amount under the Kyoto Protocol Speaker:
Ms. Clare Breidenich, Independent Consultant
Reporting,
review and compliance under the Kyoto Protocol: the Case of Initial Review
Speaker: Ms. Katia Simeonova, Manager, Reporting, Data and Analysis Programme,
UNFCCC Secretariat
Session 2:
National systems and greenhouse gas inventories.
Use
of ETS data in GHG emission reporting.
Speaker: Mr.Krzysztof Olendrzynski, Head of National Emmission Center,
Institute of Environmental Protection, Poland
Industrial
Processes
Speaker: Mr. Dusan Vacha, GHG Expert, Department of Emissions and Sources,
Czech Hydrometeorological Institute ,Czech Republic
Experiences
with the estimation of CH4 emissions from waste disposal in landfills
from European countries
Speaker: Ms. Anke Herold, Senior Scientist, Oeko-Institute, Germany
Effective
estimation and reporting of emissions and removals in the LULUCF sector
Speaker: Mr. Zoltan Somogyi, Senior Research Fellow / Detached National
Expert , Forest Research Institute, Hungary
Energy
Speaker: Mr. Christo Christov, Executive Director, Energy Institute, Bulgaria
QA/QC
procedures in national inventory process
Speaker: Ms. Natasa Markovska, National Inventory Expert, Research Center
for Energy, Informatics and Materials, Macedonian Academy for Sciences
and Arts, Macedonia
Session 3: Introduction
to the Kyoto Protocol compliance mechanism
Introduction
to Compliance under the Kyoto Protocol
Speaker: Mr. Mukul Sanwal, Coordinator, Compliance Programme, UNFCCC Secretariat
The
work of the Enforcement and Facilitative Branches of Compliance Committee
Speaker: Mr. Mukul Sanwal, Coordinator, Compliance Programme, UNFCCC Secretariat
Session 4: Country
Case Studies
Albania:
country case study
Speaker: Ms. Mirela Kamberi, Program officer under Climate Change Unit,
Ministry of Environment, Forests and Water Administration, Albania
Hungary:
country case study
Speaker: Mr. Jozsef Feiler, Head of Department of Climate Protection and
Energy, Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary
Romania:
country case study
Speaker: Mr. Vlad Trusca, Head of Unit, Directorate of Environmental Policies,
Air Protection, Climate Change, Ministry of Environment and Water Management,
Romania
Russian
Federation: Country case study
Speaker: Ms. Elena Viculova, Leading Expert, Federal Service for Hydrometeorology
and Environmental Monitoring, Russian Federation
Turkey:
country case study
Speaker: Mr. Ali Can, Head of the Air Statistics Team, Turkish Statistical
Institute, Turkey
Session 5: Roundtable
discussion and wrap-up
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