Transparency & Documentation
Methods, data provenance, processing and version history, algorithms.
Methodologies
- Guidelines: 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National GHG Inventories, latest IPCC inventory software; reporting under decision 18/CMA.1 (Paris Agreement transparency framework).
- Global warming potentials: 100-year values (IPCC Fifth Assessment Report or later).
- Land representation: IPCC Approach 2 with sample-based area estimation (eSBAE).
- Tiers: Tier 2 (country-specific factors) for forest land, Tier 1 (IPCC defaults) where national data are lacking.
- Carbon pools: above-ground biomass, below-ground biomass and soil organic carbon; dead wood and litter are not yet included.
- Gases: land sector CO₂ only; CH₄ and N₂O from fires and mangrove soils are planned.
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). Chapters 1.3, 1.8 and 6.1.3.