Quality Management in the Finland’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory Leena Raittinen, Statistics Finland UNFCCC Workshop on National Systems April 2005 Bonn, Germany

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit / LR Quality - What is it all about? Quality is not a thing but a relation Quality is the relationship between intention and outcome High quality of the inventory is in practice conformance to requirements

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit / LR Quality strategy for the Finnish GHG inventory system Documentation Ô quality requirements for the GHG inventory are integrated directly to the National system & annual inventory process Ô no separate QM system Ô all parties of the national system are responsible for the quality of their own inventory calculations Ô documentation provides confidence in the conformity of the system to the requirements Implementation National system Annual inventory process Requirements

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit / LR Sector and emission specific calculations Expert organisations Responsible national entity Statistics Finland Agreements on inventory: Subcontract: Transport Technical Research Centre of Finland F-gases Waste Finnish Environmental Institute Agriculture Agrifood Research Finland Land use change and forestry Finnish Forest Institute Energy Industrial Processes Compilation and reporting of the inventory EC Monitoring Mechanism & UNFCCC Co-operation with Government ministries participating in the preparation of climate policy Administrative information: Environmental permits, Emission trading, Traffic National system for inventory preparation and reporting in Finland

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit / LR 1. Inventory Planning 2. Inventory Preparation 3. Inventory Evaluation 4. Inventory Improvement Continual Improvement CheckDo Plan Act setting quality objectives specifying necessary processes and resources elaboration of QA/QC plan selecting methods and emission factors collecting activity data estimating GHG emissions and removals implementing uncertainty assessment recalculations implementing QC checks reporting documenting and archiving inventory material implementing QA activities: internal audits, expert peer reviews reviews of international review teams assessing the effectiveness of the inventory system conclusions for future actions Annual inventory process

Greenhouse Gas Inventory Unit / LR Quality Management process Actions aimed at attainment of the quality objectives, such as: Routine checks of the integrity, correctness and completeness of data Identification of errors and deficiencies Documentation and archiving of inventory data and quality control actions. Inspections, reviews, and audits to ascertain the standard reached in meeting the quality objectives. Results from QC and QA, and analyses of observations are utilised to draw conclusions based on facts about actions that are required to improve inventory quality (= i.e. conformance to requirements). Requirements = Inventory principles Continual improvement  Transparency  Consistency  Comparability  Completeness  Accuracy  Timeliness Setting of the standard that is aimed for in the inventory preparation and reporting with regard to the inventory principles. Setting of quality objectives Planning and implementation of quality assurance (QA) Improvement of quality Planning and implementation of quality control (QC) Descriptions and records generated by quality control actions What outputs and results did we produce? Inventory improvement plan What improvement actions should we take? Inspection, review and audit reports How did we succeed? Archive of inventory data and CRF tables Quality objectives What standard do we aim for? Quality control plan How do we intend to reach the targets? QA/QC programme Quality assurance plan How will the inventory be evaluated? Records