City Solutions Toolkit: Emissions inventories - Data availability assessment and data collection methods

The availability of data, time, human, and financial resources will determine the type of EI methodology that can be adopted (NCCEH, 2011). Emissions inventory development can be challenging and tedious, hence it is important to adequately prepare especially in the assessment of data availability and planning for and executing the data collection process. This toolkit aims to guide air quality management (AQM) practitioners on specific data considerations in starting an EI, to ensure a more efficient process and robust outputs.