A Guide to Conducting an Emission Inventory Review

The objective of any emission inventory review is to drive the development and reporting of highly transparent, complete, accurate, consistent and comparable data inventories. The process of a review is to ensure that an independent assessment of an inventory, report and/or data takes place, as well as to ensure consistency historically and across countries subject to a review. Every aspect of a review is therefore geared towards ensuring that such a process can take place in a high quality. The review quality principles steer the nature and emphasis of review activity to engage all key actors, satisfy relevant regulatory requirements, and serves to improve the quality of data submissions from all reviewed countries over time.