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MRV Framework

The MRV system: measurement, reporting, verification and methods.

Reporting

The national GHG inventory follows a repeating cycle. Sector working groups, which include data providers and compilers, collect data for the whole time series; the coordinating unit compiles the inventory; experts check it; and it goes through stakeholder and political approval before submission to the UNFCCC.

The inventory cycle (NID Figure 1-2)
  1. 1Plan

    Kick-off with sector experts, data providers and compilers; choose methods and identify available data; invite collaborators

  2. 2Collect

    Collect and check activity data and emission factors; organise them by category

  3. 3Estimate

    Prepare and check initial estimates; draft and check the key category analysis

  4. 4Write

    Prepare and check the draft report; quality assurance of the draft

  5. 5Improve

    Address errors and comments from review

  6. 6Finalize

    Finalise the inventory, key category analysis and archives; submit to the UNFCCC; prepare the improvement plan. The cycle begins again.

Archiving: information behind the first and second National Communications was not archived, so the third inventory rebuilt the full time series. A documentation and archiving unit is part of the new arrangements.

Source: Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Forestry, Kenya's Third National Greenhouse Gas Inventory Document 1990–2022, December 2024 (Kenya’s national inventory report to the UNFCCC). Chapter 1.2.2–1.2.4, Figure 1-2.