CCXG Global Forum September 2017, BGC Transparency of reporting on mitigation: Issues and options for an enhanced framework by Kazumasa Nagamori

1. ●Common Modality, Procedure and guidelines
 Provide clear and ideal pathways, as specific as possible, to
facilitate continuous improvement of each Party's reporting
quality based on diverse and different capacities
 Require all Parties to improve the reporting quality over time
 (The reporting components ) Provides robust data for tracking
progress towards implementing and achieving NDCs and for input
to the global stocktake in an efficient manner.
 Includes minimum reporting requirements as well as ideal and
complete reporting contents
Importance of continuous improvement

2. Continuous improvement and flexibility
 Identifying the lacking capacities and capacity-building needs
 Capacity building activities including CBIT more effectively and
efficiently
 Lead to the improvement of transparency of each Party
●Flexibility
 Plays an important role in promoting the improvement and
enhancement of reporting quality and actions.
 Provided by each component, in order to meet the objective of
the enhanced transparency framework in the Paris Agreement.
●Improvements made and Improvement plans

3. Relevant Ministries
Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Japan
Private Consultant
Companies
UNFCCC Secretariat
Other Stakeholder Organizations
Ministry of Economy, Trade
and Industry (METI)
Ministry of Land, Infrastructure,
Transport and Tourism (MLIT)
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and
Fisheries (MAFF)
Ministry of the Environment
(Other Divisions)
Ministry of Finance (MOF)
Data request
Data provision
Data request
Request for reviewing
NIR&CRF
Request for revising
NIR&CRF (QC)
Submission of GHG Inventory
Review and approval of
estimation methodologies
Committee for the GHG
Emissions Estimation
Methods
GHG Inventory Quality
Assurance Working Group
Expert Peer Review of inventory
(QA)
Request for
reviewing NIR&CRF
Request for revising
NIR&CRF (QC)
Ministry of the
Environment (MOE)
National Single Entity for
Inventory Preparation
Greenhouse Gas Inventory
Office of Japan (GIO)
in National Institute for
Environmental Studies
(NIES)
Ministry of Health, Labor and
Welfare (MHLW)
Submission of GHG Inventory
Data provision
Submission of
draft Inventory
Agency for Natural Resources and
Energy (ANRE)
Forestry Agency
The Japan’s national system has developed over long term. One of the most important thing
is to continue to improve national system.
Overview of Institutional Arrangement in Japan

4. Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Inventories
in Asia (WGIA)
Objectives
• Support NAI in Asia to develop and improve their
GHG inventories
• Facilitate enhancement of cooperative
relationships towards improvement in the
accuracy of national GHG inventories in the Asian
region.
How
• Annual workshop conducted by Greenhouse
Inventory Office (GIO) with a support from the
Ministry of Environment, Japan since 2003
• WGIA15 (Myanmar, 2017)
 120 participants from 14 countries
 Reporting countries’ experiences trough
BUR, NC and ICA process
Technical improvement
Sector-based discussion
WGIA Time Host Country
1 Nov. 2003 Phuket, Thailand
2 Feb. 2005 Shanghai, China
3 Feb. 2006 Manila, Philippines
4 Feb. 2007 Jakarta, Indonesia
5 Sept. 2007 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
6 July 2008 Tsukuba, Japan
7 July 2009 Seoul, Republic of Korea
8 July 2010 Vientiane, Lao P.D.R.
9 July 2011 Phnom Penh, Cambodia
10 July 2012 Hanoi, Vietnam
11 July 2013 Tsukuba, Japan
12 Aug. 2014 Bangkok, Thailand
13 Aug. 2015 Bali, Indonesia
14 July , 2016 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
15 July , 2017 Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar
Archives
(Ref.) Enhancing capacity of transparency in Asia