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Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) and Verification tool

Year of publication 2016

Pages 11p.

Author Climate and Environment Division

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109157-9

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This user instruction guide provides description of the Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) and Verification tool, which is part of the AFOLU Emissions Analysis Tools aimed at supporting Member Countries in improving their national capacity to address UNFCCC reporting requirements and to design climate policy actions (i.e. GHG Inventories, Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions – NAMAs – and Nationally Determined Contributions – NDCs) for the agriculture, forestry and other land use (AF OLU) sector. The QA/QC and Verification tool allows to compare national GHG inventory data for the AFOLU sector reported to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) with data from the FAOSTAT Emissions database.

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