Annual Project Report
Provincial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Capacity Building and Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Accounting Methodology for Enterprises of Key Industries Project (GHG)
[Feb26， 2014]
Basic Project Information
Project Title:
UNDP Award ID
UNDP Project ID
CRIS Contract Number
Project Duration
Reporting Period
Total Approved Project Budget
Participating UN agencies
Implementing Partners/
National collaborating agencies
00063572
00080583
n/a
3 year (2011-2014)
January 1, 2013-December 31, 2013
International collaborating agencies
Cost-sharing third parties
UNDP Contact officer
Project website
NEA
Norway
Wu Peng
NOK 33,509,300
UNDP China
National Development and Reform Commission
(NDRC), The Norwegian Environment Agency
(NEA)
1. Executive Summary
 Effective mechanism for public and private sector from both China and Norway/Europe to work
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together for guidelines and templates of GHG accounting and reporting. Systematic and
participatory trial application approach developed through formulation, testing, feedback and
revision for all relevant stakeholders to work together to ensure the guidelines and templates
are enforceable cost-effective and practical.
An effective process of sharing, trial, application, feedback, further sharing and summary for
the international knowledge sharing between China and Norway/EU is in place to ensure the
knowledge sharing really contribute to inventory monitoring and report guideline
development.
Comprehensive knowledge and experience from both public and private sector on guidelines
and monitoring/reporting were shared through NEA for guidelines and reporting template
development in China.
Guidelines for 10 sectors were published on website which is well ahead of plan.
Provincial capacity was enhanced for guidelines and reporting through 4 workshops with 500
government officials from central, northwest, north and east of China.
With successful seminars and testing, the guidelines and reporting under formulation were
further revised for better technical and managerial application for both public and private
sector.
This annual report covers the reporting period of January 2013 – December 2013.
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2. Context
Global climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has drawn the
international society’s attention. China has became the largest global emitter of CO2
emissions (in aggregate terms not per capita) in the world, and the Chinese government has
been taking various measures to reduce GHG emission and mitigate climate change. Among
them, China is committed to cut the CO2 emission per unit of GDP by 40–45% by 2020
against the 2005 level.
China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) launched in 2011 carbon
trading in seven regions of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Chongqing and Shenzhen, as well as
the provinces of Guangdong and Hubei, seeking to gain experience in carbon related market
mechanisms ahead of launching a national CO2 market later by 2020.
The pilots are part of the key endeavours in China's 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) and it is
hoped to roll out the carbon market to other regions and eventually across the nation in the
13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020). China hopes to extend its pilot carbon emission trading
system (ETS) to across the nation in its new five-year plan starting 2016.
The relatively short timescale for the world’s most populous country to construct and
implement a complex trading scheme poses a number of challenges. Data quality is top of
the list since high quality data is a prerequisite for Cap and trade (doesn’t work if you don’t
know what you’re capping). Following the launch of the ETS pilots, new measuring,
reporting and verification (MRV) guidelines have been introduced, but given the potentially
huge money transfers involved, proving these work will underpin trust in the system and
access to good data.
The provincial GHG inventories are important as they provide information on trends in
GHG emissions and removals within the provinces. This in turn allows China’s policy
makers to adopt measures to reduce emissions and increase removals in a more effective and
reliable manner. Non-Annex I (NAI) Parties under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) are required to prepare GHG inventories as part
of National Communications (NCs) to be periodically submitted to the Conference of the
Parties (COP) under the UNFCCC (Article 4 and 12). At the COP13 (Bali) held in December
2007, the importance of measurable, reportable and verifiable (MRV) nationally appropriate
mitigation actions (NAMAs) taken by the developing country Parties has been recognized in
the implementation of the Convention (Decision 1/CP.13, 1 (b) (ii)). Subsequently, the G8
Environmental Ministers Meeting held in Kobe in May 2008 stated in its Chair’s Summary
that setting up and running GHG inventories in developing courtiers is of fundamental
importance in order to enhance the NAMAs of NAI Parties in Asia.
Under this context, the Norwegian-supported UNDP project, Provincial Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Inventory Capacity Building and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Accounting
Methodology for Enterprises of Key Industries (a. k. a. “the GHG project”) has been
designed and implemented to assist the Government of China to better address climate
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change through capacity building and building up a sound Greenhouse Gas emission
accounting system at enterprise level for carbon trading.
To achieve this, the GHG project will take two actions: 1) in order to lay a good foundation
for local governments to develop climate change policies and accomplish GHG control target,
the project will use "Guidelines on Provincial Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory (Trial)",
issued by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), as the teaching
materials, to implement training activities nationwide and strengthen capacity of related
local governments and agencies; 2) inter alia to make preparations for GHG trading and
permit allocation, the project will also develop a set of GHG accounting methodologies for
certain industries, as well as GHG reporting and verification methodologies, by combining
the analysis of the characteristics and the typical manufacturer in sectors such as power
generation, iron & steel, cement, glass, Nonferrous metal, chemicals and aviation industry in
China with the existing relevant accounting methodologies. On basis of these, key outputs
include: a) Provincial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory Capacity Building; and b) A set
of GHG emissions accounting methodologies for enterprises of key industries.
Most of the planned activities are implemented as scheduled by the three domestic technical
teams (or sub-contractors) working, i.e. Tsinghua University, NCSC, and SCII), as well as
one international partner, Norwegian Climate and Pollution Control Agency (a. k. a. “NEA”).
3. Key results
Four capacity building workshops on GHG inventories for provinces have been arranged
according to the plan
Nine Monitoring and Reporting Guidelines for 6 key sectors have been developed and
issued.
The main activities in the project including Norwegian experts were:
Output 1 - Capacity building:
Four capacity building workshops were held in 2013: These capacity building workshops
were organized and chaired by NCSC, and NDRC participates in the first morning sessions
every time. 5 provinces participate each time, altogether 80 – 100 people.
The first workshop in 2013 was carried out in June 2013 in the Hunan province, and Norway
participated with Mr. Torgrim Asphjell from the Environment Agency, and Mrs Marte
Kittilsen from Statistics Norway. The second workshop was carried out in July 2013 in Inner
Mongolia, and Norway with Mr. Torgrim Asphjell from the Environment Agency. The third
workshop was carried out in August 2013 in the Heilongjang province, and Norway was
represented by Mrs. Elin Økstad from the Environment Agency and Mr. Johannes
Breidenbach from Norwegian Forestry and Landscape Institute. The last workshop was held
in the Wuichan province, and from Norway participated with Mrs. Elin Økstad from the
Environment Agency.
The Norwegian experiences are given both in the distributed
textbook and as a presentation at the workshop. The presentation is modified according to
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the field of expertise participating, and in the Heijogjang province the forestry sector was
particularly highlighted.
Output 2 – GHG Monitoring and Reporting Guidelines for key sectors
- Norwegian experts gave input to the draft monitoring and reporting guidelines in
workshop and meetings in Beijing in April 2013.
- Norway was responsible for a workshop on monitoring, reporting and quality control of
industry in a workshop in Beijing in April 2013.
-All together 9 draft guidelines were issued under this contract in December 2013, produced
by the Chinese partners, ready for further testing. These guidelines comprise the following
sectors
 Iron and steel
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Chemical industry (including methanol, calcium carbide, ammonium, ethylene)
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Non-ferrous metals (aluminum, magnesium)
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Building materials (flat glass, cement)
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Power industry (thermal power plant and grid company)
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Aviation
Output 3- Project management
From summer 2013 the project scoping has been increased, and the Norwegian Work plan
has now been developed with the aim and budget of producing Monitoring and Reporting
Guidelines for 8 additional sectors. These sectors are:
• Transportation sector
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Building sector
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Machinery and equipment manufacturing sector
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Non-ferrous metals
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Papermaking sector
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Food manufacture sector
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Mining sector (except for coal mining)
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Other rest of sector (common guideline; fuel emissions)
3. Progress of the GHG in 2013
The planned results of the GHG project (Result 1: Provincial Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory
Capacity Building; and Result 2: A set of greenhouse gas emissions accounting methodologies for
enterprises of key industries) will be achieved through the following activities and outputs:
Activities and Outputs
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Output1: Provincial Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Guideline Capacity Building
Activity 1.1
Select 6 training places in different areas including eastern China, southern China, central
China, northern China, southwest China and northwest China. Make training plans
including list of major trainees and participating experts, time of training, training
content and training forms/Provincial greenhouse gas emissions inventory training
conferences and summary reports
The draft work plan was worked out in 2012 but it kept on updated and polish with more
details through 2013.
Activity 1.2
Amend, improve and print training materials/Provincial greenhouse gas emissions
inventory training conferences and summary reports
The draft of the training textbook was developed and amended including the uncertainty
management of Norwegian experience in 2012. The textbook was used in the 6 training
workshops. And the amendment of the textbook was undergoing after each workshop
throughout 2012 and 2013 and it was published on the website in October 2013.
Activity 1.3
Coordinate with all stakeholders, organize and implement 6 training activities in different
areas following the training plans/Provincial greenhouse gas emissions inventory training
conferences and summary reports
The 4 training workshops were organized in Changsha City, Hunan Province, Hohhot City,
Inner Mongolia, Yichun City, Heilongjiang Province and Jianyang City, Fujian Province
respectively covering the area of Central, Northwest, North and East of China. All trainings
were completed with success, with about 400 people from 21 provinces and municipalities
have been trained.
Activity 1.4
Collect and record feedbacks from different stakeholders in all training activities,
evaluate training effectiveness, write training effectiveness evaluation reports and project
implementation report/Provincial greenhouse gas emissions inventory training
conferences and summary reports
Comments from the trainees were collected and were analyzed. Through the comments, the
participants got clarified understandings about the inventory development. Because the
problem they met for different provinces were quite in common, and the answers are
consistent and unified, the inventory developers could correct or modify their work in a
unified way. So the provincial level inventory get more unified and consistent so as
to increase the comparability of the inventory work among all the provinces for more effect
management at the central level. The project implementation report was completed in 2013.
Activity 2.1
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Study existing enterprise-level greenhouse gas emission accounting methodologies and
their successful experience/Research on greenhouse gas emissions accounting, reporting
contents and format for enterprises of key industries, and its application
Done in 2012
Activity 2.2
Research on enterprise-level greenhouse gas emission accounting methodology for
China’s cement, flat glasses, non-ferrous metal, chemical, power generation and aviation
industries/Research on greenhouse gas emissions accounting, reporting contents and
format for enterprises of key industries, and its application
The GHG gas emission accounting methodology guidelines for 10 sub-sectors were issued to
the public on website and through other channels by NDRC in November 2013.
The development and revision of accounting methodologies for the enterprises in cement,
flat glasses, electrolytic aluminium and magnesium smelting sectors were kept on going
based on the consultation meetings with government officials and sector experts.
In the first quarter of 2013, the idea of GHG emissions accounting methodology for chemical
sector was to calculate by each specific emission source and the major emitters were
identified as ammonia production plants, calcium carbide production plants, ethylene
production plants and methanol production plants, the NCSC (National Centre on Climate
Change Strategy and International Cooperation) team drafted 4 different modules of GHG
Accounting and Reporting Guidelines for each of the above-mentioned sub-sectors.
On April 18th, 2013, at the discussion workshop hosted by the DCC-NDRC (The Department
of Climate Change of The National Development and Reform Commission), the industrial
experts from ammonia and methanol association, and experts from ethylene production,
commented that identifying and accounting GHG emissions from each specific emission
sources may be too complicated for chemical plants, the experts suggested that a carbonmass-balance at plant level is a more practical and cost-effective methodology for chemical
plants in China, and the workshop accepted these suggestion.
The NCSC team revised the GHG Accounting and Reporting Guidelines, which provided
methods and formulas accounting CO2 emissions on the basis of carbon-mass-balance at
plant level, plus methods and formulas for accounting N2O emissions from production of
nitric acid and/or adipic acid.
During the second quarter, this new GHG Reporting Guideline for chemical plants has been
peer-reviewed and face-to-face discussed with experts from China Petroleum and Chemical
Industry Federation, China Nitrogen Fertilizer Industry Association, China Carbide Industry
Association, and China Ethylene Industry Association.
On 29th August 2013, DCC-NDRC organized a general discussion and co-drafting meeting
for enterprise-level GHG emission accounting methodology and reporting guidelines for
production of chemicals, iron & steel, primary aluminium, magnesium, cement, flat glass,
ceramics, power generation, power T&D, aviation. More than 10 experts from relevant
industrial associations were invited. This workshop reviewed and defined the common
template of these guidelines.
Based on the trial application and the above-mentioned common template, the NCSC team
refined the draft of GHG Emission Accounting Methodology and Reporting Guideline for
Chemical Enterprises in China;
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On 15 October 2013, the NDRC published online (http://www.ccchina.ogv.cn) the GHG
Emission Accounting Methodology and Reporting Guidelines for these 10 industrial
sectors, i.e. production of chemicals, iron & steel, primary aluminium, magnesium,
cement, flat glass, ceramics, power generation, power T&D, aviation.
Desk studies of iron & steel works carbon flow, including international survey.
Desk study on MRV experience of iron & steel works, field visit to 1-2 works, identification
of systems boundary and GHG category.
Prepare guideline of GHG inventory of iron & steel works (draft report).
Prepare guideline of GHG inventory of iron & steel works (final report)
During the period of from January to March 2013, project team completed the development
of draft accounting guideline for Chinese aviation enterprises based on the literature review
and overall investigation on the aviation companies and airports. With the participation
from NDRC, CACC, Civil Aviation University of China, China Eastern, BCIA, NCSC and
Project team, NDRC held a seminar on the GHGs emission accounting guideline to discuss
the draft of accounting guidelines for Chinese aviation enterprises. During the discussion,
project team got positive feedback from the experts and the guideline need only trivial
changes. After the workshop, the guideline was adjusted according to the feedbacks from
experts.
The accounting method was revised based on the application result. Modifications of the
accounting guidelines and reporting template were made based on relevant comments from
experts and selected enterprises.
5 seminars were held, during which the output of “GHGs emission accounting and reporting
guideline as well as reporting template for aviation enterprises” were discussed with the
experts. Also the trial use results were presented to the government officials, the local
experts and industrial stakeholders.
During the period of from January to June, 2013, the guidelines for the accounting of GHGs
emissions for power generation and power T&D enterprises in China was completed after
several rounds of discussion and reviews based on the feedback and internal discussions
among the experts in China electricity council ,SGCC, and Jingneng Corp,.
Activity 2.3
Study on enterprise-level greenhouse gas emission report contents and format
methodology for China’s cement, flat glasses, non-ferrous metal, chemical, power
generation and aviation industry/Research on greenhouse gas emissions accounting,
reporting contents and format for enterprises of key industries, and its application
Analyze the GHG gas emission report method and good practice from foreign enterprises in
cement and flat glass industries.
Put forward the GHG gas emission report format for enterprises in cement and flat glass
industries in china.
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Organize expert consultation meeting for the GHG gas emission report format and contents.
Attend workshops including experts from China and Norway.
Develop and revise Reporting Formats & Contents for GHG Emissions from Electrolytic
Aluminum Enterprises in China.
Develop and revise Reporting Formats & Contents for GHG Emissions from Magnesium
Smelting Enterprises in China.
Consult with governments and experts in the field of reporting formats & contents for GHG
emissions from electrolytic aluminum enterprises in China.
Consult with governments and experts in the field of reporting formats & contents for GHG
emissions from magnesium smelting enterprises in China.
During the second quarters of 2013, project team drafted the reporting format for production
of chemicals and revised based on the feedbacks from experts and related enterprises.
On 29th August 2013, DCC-NDRC organized a general discussion and co-drafting meeting
for enterprise-level GHG emission accounting methodology and reporting guidelines for
production of chemicals, iron & steel, primary aluminium, magnesium, cement, flat glass,
ceramics, power generation, power T&D, aviation. More than 10 experts from relevant
industrial associations were invited. This workshop reviewed and defined the common
template of these guidelines.
Based on the trial application and the above-mentioned common template, the NCSC team
refined the draft of GHG Emission Accounting Methodology and Reporting Guideline for
Chemical Enterprises in China;
On 15 October 2013, the NDRC published online (http://www.ccchina.ogv.cn) the GHG
Emission Accounting Methodology and Reporting Guidelines for these 10 industrial sectors,
i.e. production of chemicals, iron & steel, primary aluminium, magnesium, cement, flat glass,
ceramics, power generation, power T&D, aviation.
Desk study on experience and good practices on iron & steel GHG inventory reporting in
other countries.
Prepare GHG inventory reporting guideline of iron & steel works (draft report).
Prepare GHG inventory reporting guideline of iron & steel works (final report).
During the first and second quarters of 2013, the preliminary proposal on the reporting
template for Chinese aviation enterprises was developed and modified based on the current
aviation statistics system and overall investigation on the aviation companies and airport.
Drafting reporting template of the greenhouse gas emissions for Chinese aviation enterprises
were completed and ready for publication.
The project team drafted the GHGs emission reporting template for Chinese aviation
enterprises and received positive feedback from the experts during the workshop organized
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by NDRC participated by NDRC, CACC, Civil Aviation University of China, China Eastern,
BCIA, NCSC and Project team and the template was adjusted according to the feedbacks
from experts.
Collect comments on the accounting guidelines and reporting template of greenhouse gas
emissions from aviation enterprises. The comments on the accounting guidelines and
reporting template were gathered from the selected aviation enterprises.
Sent the draft reporting template of GHGs emissions for power generation and power T&D
enterprises in China over to experts in China electricity council, SGCC, and Jingneng Corp,
gathered feedbacks from them. Based on the feedback and internal discussion, revised the
draft reporting template.
Collect comments on the accounting guidelines and reporting template of greenhouse gas
emissions from fossil fuel power generation enterprises.
Revise the accounting method based on the application result, modifications of the
accounting guidelines and reporting template based on relevant comments from pilot
enterprises.
Five important workshops and meetings were held at UNDP, Guohong hotel, Sinocarbon,
etc with the participants from UNDP, NDRC, NEA, MTR Team, China electricity council,
SGCC, Jingneng Corporation, Project team in 2013. These events were related to the GHG
accounting and reporting guidelines. During the meetings, the useful experiences from
international enterprises as well as suggestions were taken into account.
Activity 2.4
Application of enterprise-level greenhouse gas emission accounting methodology for
China’s non-ferrous metal, chemical and aviation industry/Research on greenhouse gas
emissions accounting, reporting contents and format for enterprises of key industries, and
its application
Application of the accounting methodologies in typical enterprises in cement and flat glass
industries
Application of the GHG gas emission report format and contents for enterprises in cement
and flat glass industries
Expert consultation meeting for suggestions
Applications of accounting methodologies, reporting formats & contents in a pilot
electrolytic aluminium enterprise.
Applications of accounting methodologies, reporting formats & contents in a pilot
magnesium smelting enterprise.
Consultations with enterprise representatives in the field of accounting methodologies for
GHG emissions from electrolytic aluminium enterprises in China
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Consultations with enterprise representatives in the field of accounting methodologies for
GHG emissions from magnesium smelting enterprises in China
During the third quarter, the NCSC invited an ammonia enterprise, a methanol enterprise,
an ethylene enterprise, and 9 calcium carbide enterprises, to trial this new GHG Reporting
Guideline and to calculate their GHG emissions in 2012 or 2011.
Apply iron & steel GHG inventory guideline in field visited works.
Collect comment on GHG inventory guideline, GHG inventory reporting guideline.
Improve GHG inventory accounting guideline and reporting guideline.
Application of proposed accounting method in the passenger transport aviation enterprises,
freight transport aviation enterprises and civil airport field. The accounting guidelines and
reporting template were tried out in the selected aviation enterprises.
Application of proposed accounting method in the typical coal, oil and natural gas based
power generation enterprises respectively. The accounting guideline and reporting template
were sent to selected power enterprises for testing, including 2 coal-fired and 1 natural gas
power enterprises.
4. Project Management and Oversight
Implementation status
Progress to date has been satisfactory during the reporting period. Many results were
achieved ahead of the planned time.
6 capacity building workshops were completed in 2013 which is ahead of two year work
plan.
The 9 guidelines for 6 sectors were published in 2013 which is also ahead of two year work
plan.
Issues encountered and Risk management
NDRC manages the subcontracts with the domestic teams while UNDP manages the subcontract with NEA. NEA’s work plan is designed to give inputs to NDRC’s work plan
activities, thus, thus NEA’s progress of the project is very much dependent of that of the
Chinese side.
The communication has been enhanced and more intensive communication will be need for
the next step work.
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Monitoring and Evaluation
The monitoring and evaluation management during the reporting period is adequate.
Several rounds of meeting among NDRC, UNDP, and the Embassy were held and one
assembly working level meeting with all key partners involved was held in mid November.
Midterm evaluation is completed with very positive conclusion of the project results
achieved. The conclusions are as followed:
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The GHG Project has been highly effective in delivering outputs for GHG accounting
and reporting formats that will enhance the quality of enterprise GHG reports and
GHG inventories to the ETS system. The effectiveness of the past work should allow
the Project to cover 14 industrial sectors instead of the original target of 6 sectors;
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The benefits of NEA participation on these Projects are significant including their
inputs and validation of NDRC’s approach to the design of enterprise-GHG
guidelines, GHG inventories and ETS designs and operations.
Human Resource Management
Communication and advocacy
Communication has been enhanced for more effective implementation and cooperation for
relevant project implementation partners.
5. Financial Management
The GHG project is being delivered according to the planned budget with details as follows
(amounts are all in US$):
Source of Fund
Expenditure Vs.
Approved project
budget by source of
funding
UNDP
Government Cost
Sharing
Third Party Costsharing (Norwegian
funding)
Other (please specify)
Total
Funds
received
2013
Budget (2013)
Expenditure
(2013)
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2,126,485.44
1,726,068
1,700,927
2,126,485.44
1,726,068
1,700,927
Table 1: Expenditure Vs. Approved project budget by source of funding
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Table 2: 2013 Financial Report
It should be noted that 2 payments have been made by the Embassy during the year 2013
and the second payment was provided to cover the full project cost for newly proposed
activities.
The delivery rate is 98.54% against the planned budget as of December 31, 2013. The
financial report includes the expenditures (NDRC and NEA) throughout the year of 2013.
Part of the reason for increasing delivery is due to the overcharge of UNDP GMS cost in 2013,
which will be recalculated by the end of the project.
USD3, 448,582.00 (NOK20,622,236.00) was received in project account and USD1,465,008.39
spent until December 31, 2012. Therefore, USD1,983,574 was carried over to 2013.
USD2,126,485.44 (NOK12,699,225.00) was received in 2013 and USD1,700,927.00 spent until
Dec 31, 2013. Therefore, USD2,409,132.44 will be the total budget for 2014 for GHG project.
Exchange gain and loss
There are two categories of exchange gain and loss: one is due to the funding transfer from
the donor to UNDP China, which needs to change NOK to USD. The other is due to the
fluctuation of the exchange rate between RMB and USD.
UNDP will further calculate the potential loss for ETS project and seek solution from all
partners on how to deal with the situation with three possible solutions for consideration:
1. Increase the budgets
2. Adjust the budgets
3. Reduce or adjust the activities
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6. Management recommendations
From the mid-term evaluation new disbursement modality should be explored to enhance
the final cooperation between NEA and NDRC for better implementation.
Recommendation 4: NEA and NDRC will need to setup a new disbursement modality
where NEA are managing previously-led NDRC managed activities. This may include
NEA “outsourcing” direction of these specific activities to NDRC, and providing its own
oversight to these activities prior to approving the reimbursement of these activities.
Proposed Follow Ups:
UDNP will propose the disbursement modality procedure for Norwegian Embassy, NEA and
NDRC to endorse for the implementation.
6.1 Regular communication among the project partners is needed for more
effective implementation of the project.
Communication is crucial to effective implementation of the projects. Communication
should be increased and set for on a regular basis among all the partners while UNDP will
take a lead in this.
More meetings between NEA and NDRC including the subcontractors will be organized to enhance
the communication and cooperation.
The communication should be further strengthened as the project stage is moving towards
more to the application of the project results by sharing more practical experiences from
Norway/Europe to China.
7. Gender
The GHG project is not meant to be a gender-oriented project; however, women do take a
considerable percentage among the 3 Chinese and NEA experts and participants of the
project-organized workshops, along the fact that the senior management and the PMO staff
are all women on the Chinese side.
8. Anti-Corruption
The anti-corruption measures have been put in place with annual auditing conducted on
both the Chinese and NEA sides respectively.
9. Conclusion
The project results were achieved with the activities of capacity workshops and guideline
development completed successfully ahead of time. During 2013 the project scope has been
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broadened to include development of additional eight sectors. This has been possible
because the spending of this project was lower than the original budget, making it possible
to add other activities to the project.
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Guidelines for 10 sectors were published on website which is well ahead of plan
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Provincial capacity was enhanced for guidelines and reporting through 4 workshops with
500 government officials from central, northwest, north and east of China.
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With successful seminars and testing, the guidelines and reporting under formulation were
further revised for better technical and managerial application for both public and private
sector.
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Effective mechanism for public and private sector from both China and Norway/Europe to
work together for guidelines and templates of GHG accounting and reporting. Systematic
and participatory trial application approach developed through formulation, testing,
feedback and revision for all relevant stakeholders to work together to ensure the
guidelines and templates are enforceable cost-effective and practical.
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An effective training mechanism for GHG inventory to ensure sufficient capacity for
effective implementation. The training could also provide practical feedback on the GHG
inventory work, which also ensured their feasibility and cost-effectiveness.
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