BACKGROUND
The Government of Saint Lucia, through the Department of Sustainable Development (DSD), a division of the Ministry of Education, Sustainable Development, Innovation, Science, Technology and Vocational Training is currently embarking on key activities for the preparation of its Fourth National Communication (FNC) and its First Biennial Transparency (BTR 1) report to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Saint Lucia is required to periodically submit a National Communication (NC) every four years and a Biennial Transparency Report (BTR) every two years to the Conference of Parties (COP) and the Paris Agreement (PA), under the Enhanced Transparency Framework (ETF).
The focus of this consultancy is the production of ONE (1) GHG inventory and TWO (2) National Inventory Reports (NIR) on Greenhouse Gases (GHGs), for the years 2019-2023 utilizing the:
(a) 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Inventories and any subsequent version of or refinement to these IPCC guidelines agreed upon by the Conference of Parties serving at the meeting of the Parties to the PA (CMA);
(b) IPCC Good Practice Guidance reports for Non-Annex I parties, taking into account the need to improve transparency, consistency, comparability, completeness and accuracy in the inventory;
(c) 2019 refinement, where the available data permit.
Of the two reports, each should be specific to the FNC and BTR1 projects, respectively. The consultancy will see the completion of a validation exercise for the 1994, 2000-2018 data which has been submitted to the UNFCCC; and production of time series data for the years 1990-2023. These outputs will be submitted as part of Saint Lucia’s Fourth National Communication and First Biennial Transparency Report respectively to the UNFCCC.