Chapter 3 - Data collection

This guidance incorporates and extensively references guidance from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2006 Guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories(IPCC Guidelines)(IPCC, 2006) and 2019 refinement to the 2006 IPCC guidelines (IPCC, 2019). This chapter provides general guidance for collecting existing national/international data and new data. The material is intended both for countries establishing a data collection strategy for the first time and for countries with established data collection procedures.