IPCC Guidelines

Basic information

Year	2006
Developer	Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Users	National governments
Product	National Greenhouse Inventory
Time boundary	Calendar year (time series)
Goal	To provide internationally agreed methodologies that countries currently use to estimate greenhouse gas inventories to report to the UNFCCC.
Structure	1. Energy 2. Industrial processes and Product use 3. Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Use 4. Waste 5. Other
Emissions Scope	Directs and indirects
Gases included	All
Emissions computation	Yes
Emissions reduction	No
Emissions compensation	No

Resources

2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (May, 2006)

How to Review IPCC Assessment Reports: Webinars and Guidance for Climate Experts
Type: Self-paced course | Duration: 3 hours | Language: English

Links of interest

Special Report. Global Warming of 1.5 ºC (Oct, 2018)
An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.

Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) (Oct, 2014)
The Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) provides an overview of the state of knowledge concerning the science of climate change, emphasizing new results since the publication of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) in 2007.

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (Sep, 2013)
The Working Group I contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides a comprehensive assessment of the physical science basis of climate change since 2007 when the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) was released.