National communications from Parties included in Annex I to the Convention. Guidelines for the preparation of national communications. Report on the workshop on methodological issues related to greenhouse gas inventories. Note by the secretariat. Addendum. Draft revised text of the UNFCCC guidelines for reporting inventory data by Annex I Parties.
As requested, the secretariat organized a workshop on methodological issues related to GHG inventories, which was held in Bonn, from 9 to 11 December 1998. The report on this workshop is contained in document FCCC/SBSTA/1999/INF.1.
5. A draft of the inventory section of the revised guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Annex I Parties (decision 9/CP.2), referred to below as the UNFCCC guidelines, incorporating clarifications, additions and amendments, has been prepared based on the conclusions of the workshop and submissions from Parties (FCCC/SBSTA/1998/MISC.6, and Add.1-2).1 It differs substantially from the text of the inventory section of the current UNFCCC guidelines, which can be found written in italics in document FCCC/SBSTA/1999/INF.1, annex I, paragraphs 2 to 16. The draft revised text is contained in the annex to the present document