GHG inventory capacity building to create national GHG inventory systems: The UNFCCC and its mitigation action success depend upon one critical factor:  whether the emissins data used to assess effectiveness is reliable.  The Marrakesh Accords include a set of monitoring and compliance procedures to enforce the UNFCCC process.  Elements of these procedures include: establishment of a national system for the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks; submission of annual greenhouse gas inventories that shall be subject to an independent review by expert teams.  It is necessary for all potential REDD+ countries begin to institute a national inventory system.

Current technical capabilities developing GHGs inventories exist only in Annex I Parties' national agencies which are now submitting inventories under the UNFCCC.  To ensure that all REDD+ developing countries are prepared to submit national GHGs inventories, existing technical capability must be uniform.

CfRN's objective is to build in-country capacity to prepare a national GHGs inventory for emissions and removals related to land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) in 30-40 developing countries.  CfRN estimates that these countries should have the capacity to develop and report a national GHGs inventory by 2012.

The Coalition will act with the Johann Heinrich von Thuenen Institute (vTI) with in-country technical support of GTZ.  Collaborating partners will be the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States, the UN-REDD Programme, the UNFCCC Secretariat, and the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility of the World Bank.  CfRN's main roles will be the coordination of the collaborating partners and oversight of the in-country institutional capacity development.

This initiative will be conducted through a project approach and will be based on capacity building workshops where lessons learned will be shared by national technical agencies.  The meetings will also build upon experiences.  Three additional global-scaled workshops will identify institutional needs and convey them to policymakers and managers.

These national GHGs Inventories will serve as the technical instrument to assess the results of national climate change strategies and formulate low carbon growth plans, paving the way for national economic standards connected to a carbon market and receipt of REDD+ funding from donor countries.