1. SEEA CF Implementation and extensions:
Completing the links between UNFCCC reporting and SEEA AFF Air Emission Accounts. A “tier 1” exercise.
by Giusy Vetrella, Aldo Femia (Istat) and Francesco Tubiello (FAO)
London Group on Environmental Accounting
XXXIII meeting
San Josè de Costa Rica
17-20 October 2017

2. The SEEA-CF AEA
only by substance

3. UNFCCC reporting for Annex 1 Countries, compilation of SEEA CF AEA, and our exercise
Auxiliary information (e.g. PEFA)
Air Emissions by ISIC
Air Emission Inventories
Applications at
higher tiers would go directly to the sources
Usually limited to
Non-LULUCF!
Includes LULUCF!
Air Emissions by ISIC and product, detailed for ISIC A activities/products
Common Reporting Format
Has serious consequences for IOA and LCA!

4. Results: Totals, part 1 SF: Syntetic Fertilizers
MAS: Manure Applied to Soil
BB: Burning Biomass
CRLS: Crop Residues left on soils
MLP: Manure left on Pasture
EF: Enteric Fermentation
MM: Manure Management
RC: Rice Cultivation
CDOS: Cultivation of Drained Organic Soils
OCGA: Other Cropland and Grassland Activities
FCAg Fuel Combustion (in Agriculture)
FLM: Forest Land Management
FCFo: Fuel Combustion (in Forestry)
FCFi: Fuel Combustion (in Fishing)
OFi: Other (in Fishing)

5. Results:Totals, part 2

6. Results: IPCC’s Agriculture by product/asset
(Continued)
CRLS: Crop Residues left on soils
MLP: Manure left on Pasture
CDOS: Cultivation of Drained Organic Soils
OCGA: Other Cropland and Grassland Activities

7. Results: IPCC’s LULUCF
(Continued)

8. Questions Of two kinds:
Concerning the correct identification of the connections with products and the proposed allocation to economic activities;
Concerning the possibility of generalizing (in particular, to non-Annex 1 Countries) this kind of work

9. Type 1 questions: some examples
Emissions from Wildfires allocated to “Other ISIC and Households”;
Crop residues left on soil allocated to Environmental Assets relevant for AFF activities row, because they provide a fertilisation service to the following years’ production. However, they are due to current crop production (crops row) and emit this year…
Emissions from manure management allocated to the “manure” product (“other products” row). However, manure is connected to livestocks and animal production…
Emissions from Manure left on Pasture allocated to Environmental Assets relevant for AFF activities row (grassland). However…
Emissions from Manure Applied to Soil allocated to Crops Primary row…
Emissions from “Harvested wood products”, provisionally allocated “Other ISIC and Households”, as we considered them deriving from the use of these products, which mainly occurs outside AFF activities. Is this correct?
Other borderline cases surely present!

10. Type 2 questions
Annex-1 countries UNFCCC reporting tool (CRF) is complete and detailed. Can a mapping with other (IPCC-compliant) estimates be established, even if the latter have lower levels of detail?
Is the level of detail of the CRF high enough for establishing the most important correspondences with economic activities and products or is there a big need for pro-quota allocation?
Can the connections proposed in this paper be the basis for a set of guidelines for the transformation of UNFCCC communication data into table 4.5 of the SEEA AFF?
Which adaptations are required to allow exploitation of existing national and international databases?