Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories

International concern for the continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions, and the potentially damaging consequences of resultant global climate change, led to the signing of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change by 155 nations at the Earth Summit in June 1992. The Convention came into force on 21 March 1994, three months after receiving its 50th ratification. All Parties to the Convention are required to compile, periodically update, and publish national inventories of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and sinks using comparable methodologies. In support of this process, the US Country Studies Program (US CSP) is providing financial and technical assistance to 56 developing and transition countries for conducting national inventories.
This book presents the results of preliminary national inventories prepared by countries participating in the US CSP that are ready to share their interim findings. In some cases, inventories were prepared with support from other organizations. Preliminary inventories of twenty countries in Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States, and Latin America are presented, as well as regional and global syntheses of the national results. The regional and global syntheses also discuss results of eleven other preliminary national inventories that have been published elsewhere with the assistance of other programs. Results are discussed in the context of national and regional socioeconomic characteristics, and the regional and global syntheses compare national inventory estimates to other published estimates that are based largely on international databases. Papers also discuss inventory development issues, such as data collection and emission factor determination, and problems associated with applying the IPCC inventory methodologies.
The preliminary inventory results reported here represent significant progress towards meeting country commitmentsunder the Framework Convention, and provide useful information for refining international greenhouse gas emission databases and improving inventory methodologies. As the first book to compile national greenhouse gas emission estimates prepared by national experts in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, this will be an invaluable resource to scientists, policymakers, and development specialists in national, regional and global anthropogenic sources and sinks of greenhouse gases.

I.- National Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories in Developing Countries and Countries with Economies in Transition: Global Synthesis.- II Africa.- A Synthesis of Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventories in Africa.- Côte d'Ivoire-Preliminary Greenhouse Gas Inventory.- The 1993 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory of The Gambia: A Synthesis Report.- Nigeria's Greenhouse Gases Inventory: Estimates for 1990.- Zimbabwe Country Study on Greenhouse Gas Inventories-Methodology and Summary of Results.- III Asia.- Inventory of Asian Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks in 1990.- Bangladesh Emissions of Greenhouse Gases-Preliminary Findings.- China: Interim Report on Greenhouse Gas Emissions.- Emission and Removal of Greenhouse Gases in Mongolia.- Greenhouse Gas Inventory of the Philippines: Interim Report.- Greenhouse Gas Inventory in Thailand.- IV Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.- Emissions of Greenhouse Gases in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States.- Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Bulgaria: 1987-1990.- An Inventory of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Czech Republic.- Greenhouse Gas Emissions-Recent Trends in Estonia.- Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals in Hungary.- Inventory of Kazakstan Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990.- Preliminary GHG Emissions Inventory for the Slovak Republic.- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory in Ukraine: Preliminary Analysis.- V Latin America.- Regional Synthesis of Greenhouse Gases in Latin America.- National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Country Study-Bolivia.- National Inventory of Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse Gases in Costa Rica.- Peru's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory.- Venezuelan Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory.