Outline of the Project

Project Name

The Project for enhancing capacity to develop a sustainable GHG inventory system for PNG

Country

Papua New Guinea

Date of Agreement

April 24, 2017

Cooperation Period

September 1, 2017 to August 1, 2021

Background

Papua New Guinea (PNG) positioned Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change as one of the pillars of Papua New Guinea Vision 2050, and has worked to mainstream climate change measures with a view to become carbon neutral by 2050. As the country that proposed Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries (REDD) in the UNFCCC, and as a pilot country of UN-REDD, PNG is active in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the forestry sector. As a result of economic growth, the volume of coal consumption in recent years has increased, and so three objectives have been set in Mongolia's National Determined Contributions (NDC) submitted in March 2016: complete shift to renewable energy by 2030; improvement of cross-sectorial energy efficiency; and emission reduction in the transport sector.

PNG has prepared the GHG inventory twice, for its First and Second National Communications (NC) under United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) framework.

Issues identified from the past experiences have become the basis for PNG's institutional development. Specifically, in 2015, the Climate Change (Management) Act was enacted, and the Climate Change and Development Authority (CCDA) was designated as the leading agency in charge of climate change policies. By PNG's ratification of the Paris Agreement in 2016, and the enactment of UNFCCC Paris Agreement (Implementation) Bill 2016, GHG emission reduction target described in the NDC has become binding target for PNG. However, the country still faces issues on the design of GHG database and its maintenance, data collection and control, in addition to the lack of GHG inventory experts and managers. CCDA enhanced its human resources in recent years, but still faced capacity challenges in implementing the GHG inventory preparation. As such, in July 2014, the government requested JICA for this project to enhance capacity of CCDA resources.

JICA conducted the First survey for technical cooperation for this project in September 2016 followed by the Second survey in February 2017. The Surveys summarized the issues of GHG inventory preparation in PNG as the following: (1) the lack of basic capacity necessary to prepare GHG inventory regularly; (2) the lack of capacity among relevant institutions to promote understanding on GHG inventory; and (3) the lack of capacity to technically review the GHG inventory and make improvements in each sector.

This project was designed to address the abovementioned issues, and to enhance the basic capacity of CCDA to be able to prepare GHG inventories on a regular basis. With the agreement by JICA, CCDA and Department of National Planning and Monitoring (DNPM), the Record of Discussion (R/D) was signed on April 24th, 2017.

Objectives

Overall Goal:
TACCC (Transparent, accurate, consistent, comparable, complete) GHG inventories are prepared periodically.

Project Purpose:
The basic capacity of CCDA to periodically prepare TACCC (Transparent, accurate, consistent, comparable, complete) GHG inventories is strengthened.

Outputs

1. Capacity to periodically and systematically prepare the national GHG inventories including implementation of QA/QC procedures is enhanced.
2. Capacity to promote understanding of national GHG inventories is enhanced.
3. Capacity to technically assess the GHG inventory and to make improvements is enhanced for each sector (energy, industrial processes, agriculture, land use, land-use change and forestry, waste)

Activity

Output 1

1-1	Examine the existing arrangements for preparing national GHG inventories in PNG and assess current capacity of CCDA and other relevant parties involved in the preparation.
1-2	Consider and recommend ways to improve the national GHG inventory arrangements.
1-3	Draft/Update a work plan/guidebook/checklist for preparing national GHG inventories including cross cutting QA/QC activities (to be part of the national GHG inventory report [NIR]).
1-4	Draft/Update a Memorandum of Understanding between CCDA and data providers to clarify the roles and responsibilities in addition to the general schedule of data provision.
1-5	Collect data necessary for national GHG inventories from relevant parties.
1-6	Develop/Update a database/data platform, consisting of parameters used in the GHG emission/removal estimation.
1-7	Use 2006 IPCC Guidelines software and/or spreadsheets to estimate GHG emissions/removals from each of the sectors.
1-8	Compile national GHG inventories with time series consistency.
1-9	Draft/update technical document on procedures of inventory compilation and each sector's QA/QC activities (to be part of the NIR).

Output 2

2-1	Conduct workshops for acquiring general knowledge on preparation of national GHG inventories.
2-2	Conduct workshops on preparation for the national GHG inventories, methods, and their improvement in addition to presentation on the progress of inventory preparation to the appropriate stakeholders.

Output 3

3-1	Study IPCC methods for preparing activity data and emission factors and for implementing data compilation and QA/QC for each sector of the national GHG inventories.
3-2	Conduct key category analysis and uncertainty assessment to identify categories which should be given priority in improving the inventory.
3-3	Collect and compile information and identify emission factors and other relevant parameters that better reflect national or regional circumstances (in prioritized key categories).
3-4	Consider whether/how mitigation actions including NAMAs can be reflected in the GHG inventory to track the progress of PNG in achieving its NDC targets.
3-5	Prepare a guidebook/FAQ for the international consultation and analysis process and prepare document for the facilitative sharing of views process under the UNFCCC.
3-6	Draft and improve a national GHG inventory improvement plan (to be included in NIR).
3-7	Review summary of the GHG inventory to be prepared by CCDA be included in the BUR/NC.

Inputs

The Japanese side:

• Experts: GHG inventory experts (General, Energy, Industrial Processes and Product use, Agriculture, Land use, Land use change and forestry, waste)
• Workshop
• Equipment: PC for data management
• Training in Japan/third country

The PNG side:

• Counterpart personnel
• Office space for experts, meeting space for meetings/seminars
• Necessary operation costs