Institutionalizing data management system

Australian Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Information System (AGEIS)

2nd CGE pilot informal forum

Madrid, Spain, 5 December 2019, COP 25

What is AGEIS? Australian Greenhouse Emissions

Information System

• Emission estimation and inventory compilation

• Online query database of emissions data

• Quality control system

• Data management system

• Integrated documentation & archive system

• Report production, population and link to UNFCCC

reporting software

National Inventory System Design

Compliance with international reporting obligations

Information for policy makers

Policy efficiency – supporting domestic abatement programs

Efficient national inventory compilation and data management

Building confidence of users – both international and domestic

Why build AGEIS ?

Emission Estimation and Inventory Compilation

Linking to UNFCCC reporting software

Emission Estimation

*Demonstration Data

Online database of emissions

*Demonstration Data

Online database of emissions

*Demonstration Data

Quality Control of emissions results

*Demonstration Data

Data management system

*Demonstration Data

Integrated documentation & archiving system

Success Factors

Efficient inventory compilation & improved data accessibility

Continuity of IT developers and in-house inventory expertise

Robust Maintenance and Change Management/

Documentation

Central to Australia’s National Inventory System

Strong commitment to AGEIS funding and development

AGEIS Improvement Plan linked to National Inventory Plan

AGEIS caters for a range of audiences

o UN reporting commitments

o Products to inform domestic policies

Key Challenges & Constraints

• Moving to 2006 IPCC GLs

• Quality control of large complex emission dataset

• Dealing with confidential & sensitive data

• Continuous refinements to emission methodologies -

requiring re-coding of AGEIS

• IT infrastructure/technology improvements

• Changes to the CRF Reporter tool

• Ongoing investment needed in capital and maintenance

What Remains to be Addressed

• Implementation of 2019 refinement of 2006 GLs

• Alignment with Paris CRF reporting tables

• Other inventory related policy-relevant outputs

• Industrial classification inventory

• Integration with pollution reporting system

Australia-Thailand Collaboration

Thailand’s Greenhouse Gas

Emissions Inventory System (TGEIS)

• Collaborative design and development:

- Modelled on the AGEIS

- TGEIS Phase 1 commissioned in July 2018

• TGEIS will strengthen Thailand’s MRV to support its Paris

Agreement commitments

• TGEIS to become a critical input to Thailand’s:

- domestic mitigation measures & policy

- economic modernisation agenda “Thailand 4.0”

• Phase 2 underway to support Thailand’s 3rd BUR

YouTube: TGEIS