The 18th Workshop on Greenhouse Gas Inventories in Asia

• Mutual Learning on Energy / Brunei-Mongolia
• Mutual Learning on Waste / China-Indonesia

• Mutual Learning on LULUCF / Bhutan-Indonesia
• Mutual Learning on General / Thailand-Japan

Opening Session

• Welcome Address
  Yoshiteru Sakaguchi, Director of Decarbonized Society Promotion Office (MOEJ)
• Introduction to the WGIA18
  Hiroshi Ito (GIO)
• Japan’s Current Progress on Global Warming Countermeasures
  Toru Hayashi, Decarbonized Society Promotion Office (MOEJ)

Session I: Updates on the GHG Inventory of National Communications (NCs) and Biennial Update Reports (BURs) from non-Annex I Parties

Cheir: Sirintornthep Towprayoon (AB/King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi)

• Cambodia’s first Biennial Update Report (fBUR)
  Sokhim Pich (Cambodia)
• Lao National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
  BounEua Khamphilavanh (Laos)
• Brief Introduction on The People’s Republic of China Second Biennial Update Report on Climate Change (BUR2)
  Qingxian Gao (China)
• Malaysia’s Third Biennial Update Report to the UNFCCC
  Dayang Ratnasari Binti Abu Bakar (Malaysia)
• National GHG Inventory Under Vietnam’s BUR3
  Nguyen Van Anh (Vietnam)

Session II: Transition to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories and Resources That Will Facilitate Compilation

Chair: Rizaldi Boer (AB/Bogor Agricultural University)

• Transition to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in Thailand
  Sivach Kaewcharoen (Thailand)
• Transition to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
  Winnie Chia (Singapore)
• Philippines: Experience Transitioning to 2006 IPCC GL
  Sandee G. Recabar (philippines)
• IPCC Inventory Software Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) sector
  Baasansuren Jamsranjav (AB/IPCC/TFI)
• FAOSTAT Emissions data: Agriculture and Forest Land, 1990–2019
  Francesco N. Tubiello (FAO)
• Estimation of GHG Emission/Absorption Using Satellite Data in Mongolia
  Masataka Watanabe (Chuo University)

Session III: National GHG Inventory for the Transparency Framework Under the Paris Agreement

Chair: Baasansuren Jamsranjav (AB/IPCC/TFI)

• Requirements for National Inventory Reports as Part of the Biennial Transparency Report Under the Enhanced Transparency Framework of Paris Agreement
  Dominique Revet (UNFCCC)
• Japan’s Experience in Compiling and Reporting the National GHG Inventory
  Naofumi Kosaka (GIO)
• Addressing time-series consistency/recalculations within the AFOLU sector of the U.S GHG Inventory
  John Steller (USEPA)

Poster Session

• P-1: Preparation of Japan’s National Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Trends in GHG Emissions
  GIO, NIES
• P-2: Agro-GHG Platform
  Shenghui Han, Wen Zhang, Yongqiang Yu
  Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
  
• P-3: Challenges to Greenhouse Gas Inventory training for Thai and Southeast Asian Countries under the COVID-19 Situation
  Nareerat Thanakasem, Thawatchai Saengkhamsuk,
  Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organization (Public Organization), Thailand
• P-4: Comparison of Methane Emissions Estimated with Inverse Model Using GOSAT and Ground-based Observations with National Inventories
  Rajesh Janardanan, Shamil Maksyutov, Fenjuan Wang, Tsuneo Matsunaga
  Satellite Observation Center, Earth System Division, NIES
  

Closing Session

• Summary and Closing remarks
  Elsa Hatanaka (GIO)
• Brief Summary of the Plenary Sessions

Joint Meeting of the WGIA Organizing Committee and Advisory Board (members of the OC and AB, and the WGIA secretariat are requested to attend)

Chair: Hiroshi Ito (GIO)

• Review of Activities in WGIA18
  OC/AB members
• Discussion on Topics for WGIA19
  OC/AB members