USAID turns over Greenhouse Gas Inventory Guide for LGUs

From the Philippine Information Agency (Mar 10): USAID turns over Greenhouse Gas Inventory Guide for LGUs

A manual developed by the USAID B-Leaders Project that will help guide local government units in conducting greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory has been turned over to the Climate Change Commission.

The “Community-Level GHG Inventory for Local Government Units in the Philippines: User’s Manual  will serve as a step-by-step guide to LGUs in gathering, managing and quantifying data and information about the level of greenhouse gas emissions within their respective jurisdictions.

Divina Chingcuangco, chief of party USAID (United States Agency for International Development) B-Leaders Project said that these manual can help local government draft their local climate change action plans.

The turn-over was made at the Xavier Hall of the Ateneo de Davao University this morning (March 10) representing the Climate Change Commission was Secretary Emmanuel de Guzman and Commissioner Noel Antonio Gaerlan.

The manual walks LGUs through the process of computing GHG emissions and removals from carbon sinks such as forests.  It also contains guidelines on categories of data from the agricultural sector.

The manual comes with a GHG Inventory Qualification Excel spreadsheet which can be used as a template for reporting GHG inventories.

Sec. de Guzman of the Climate Change Commission said that the GHG inventory at the community level will help the country in accurately determining its overall GHG level.

“This is one way of pushing LGUs to be transparent and be more mindful of their respective GHG emissions.”

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