UN Division for Sustainable Development

Case Study Detail Record

Organization type:	Government

Name of Ministry/Agency:	The Department of Meteorology

Country:	Uganda

Initiative Title:	The Greenhouse Gas Inventory Project

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Scope:

Status:	Suspended

Timeframe:	Start: End:

Stakeholders/Partners:

Relevent issues:	- Greenhouse gas sinks

Objectives/Challenges:

1) To conduct an inventory which gives a comprehensive list of emissions of greenhouse gases by source and removals by sinks in Uganda;

2) To formulate a number of recommendations, including enhancement of legal, regulatory and policy framework. The recommendations are however of a general nature, they do not contain any specific details on the modalities of such a framework.

Lessons Learned:

The institutions which participated in this project gained some capacity on the methodologies for GHG emission estimation. The Inventory is however supposed to be up-dated annually but this has not been the case due to lack of funds and capacity in the collection and analysis of the required data. There is therefore a need to strengthen the capacity of the concerned departments and organizations in data collection and analysis such as the departments of Meteorology and Energy, the Directorate of Water Resources, the National Forestry Authority and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. The private sector, especially the industries need also to have enough capacity in measurement, monitoring and control of environmental pollutants from the industries.

Summary:

Uganda carried out a National Inventory of Sources and Sinks of Greenhouse gases in 1993 with funding from the GEF. The project was implemented by UNEP and coordinated by the Department of Meteorology. The Inventory was partly updated in 1995 with funding from the United States Government under the United States Country Studies programme.