Greenhouse Gas Emissions:

Inventories

Charles Situma

P.O. Box 47146, 00100, Nairobi,

Kenya
Tel: 254-20-606962
E-mail: casituma@yahoo.com 1
 KENYAN SCENARIO
PROBLEMS ENCOUNTERED DURING
PREPARATION OF FIRST NATIONAL
COMMUNICATION ON CLIMATE
CHANGE

WITH RESPECT TO LULUCF

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 Kenya
• Located in East Africa and lies on the
equator
• Has population of 27 million (Kenya
Bureau of statistics, 1999) but experts
believe population is about 30 million
people.
• 20% of Kenya support rainfed
agriculture while 80% support wildlife
and livestock (rangelands
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 LUCF
• Forest cover occupy 1.7 % (UNEP), 1.8%
(DRSRS) and 3% (FAO)
• Government want to increase forest cover to
10%
• Various land use categories exist in Kenya
– Forestlands
– Grasslands
– Croplands
– Settlements
– Wetlands
– Others (National parks/reserves, quarying)
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What activities lead to GHG emission?

•Agriculture sector
•Land use, Land use change & Forestry
Sector (LULUCF)
•Energy Sector
•Industrial Sector
•Waste and Waste Management sector
All these themes were covered in the First National
Communication on Climate Change
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Land Use Change and Forestry
• First National Communication of Kenya
identified gaps and needs in the context of
UNFCCC recommendations

• Changes in land use and alteration in forest

cover plays a significant role towards GHG
emissions into the atmosphere

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 Gaps & Needs Identified
– Lack of activity data on cleared forest, harvested
biomass, abandoned managed lands and burnt
savannah including grasslands
» Description of arrangements to collect and archive
data to make GHG inventory a continuous process

» Information on the level of uncertainty

associated with inventory data

– Establishment of EF for GHG in land use changes

and forestry sub-sector was a major constraint
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 Gaps & Needs ……contd
– Harmonization of institutional data collection
and information exchange mechanism
» Data formats
» legal issues including copyright
» Data pricing
» Accessibility to data
– Sampling Design methodologies for GHG
inventory
» Inadequate Research
» Systematic/consistent observation
– capacity building (training to build competencies and
capacities in various GHG inventory aspects)

– Awareness
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 Way forward
• Capacity building (human and
institutional)
• Enhanced networking – collaboration
among relevant institutions
• Awareness campaign
• Research (universities, institutions)

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