Working documents
To help in prepareing national communications
the international organisations developed
a lot of handbooks, materials and software
the international organisations developed
a lot of handbooks, materials and software
Main documents:
- The United Nations Framework Convntion on Climate Change.
- The Kyoto Protocol.
- IPCC Third Assessment Report 2001:
- Climate Change 2001. The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge, 2001
- Climate Change 2001. Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge, 2001
- Climate Change 2001. Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge, 2001
- Climate Change Information Kit.
- National Communications Help Guide. NCSP, 1999
- Guidelines for the Preparation of Initial Communications by Parties not Included in Annex I to the Convention (Decision 10/CP.2, document FCCC/CP/1996/15/Add.1).
- Party’s National communications on climate change.
Greenhouse gases inventory:
- Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, IPCC/UNEP/OECD/IEA, 1997 :
- Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Volume 1. Reporting Instructions, 1997.
- Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Volume 2. Workbook, 1997.
- Revised 1996 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Volume 3. Reference Manual, 1997.
- Good Practice and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, IPCC Secretariat, 16th Session, Montreal, 1-8 May 2000.
- On-line database of GHG inventories (emissions of CO2, CH4, N2O, CO, NOx, NMVOC, SO2 of the UNFCCC Parties).
GHG effect abatement:
- UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Economics of Greenhouse Gas Limitations – Methodological Guidelines. (UCCEE, Riso National Laboratory, Denmark, 1998). Editors: K.Halsnes, J.M.Callaway, H.J.Meyer.
- UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Analysis of Abatement Costing Issues and Preparation of a Methodology to Undertake National Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Phase One Report. Riso National Laboratory, Denmark, 1992.
- UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Analysis of Abatement Costing Issues and Preparation of a Methodology to Undertake National Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Phase Two. Part One: Main Report. Riso National Laboratory, Denmark, 1994.
- UNEP Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Analysis of Abatement Costing Issues and Preparation of a Methodology to Undertake National Greenhouse Gas Abatement Costing Studies. Phase Two. Part 2: Country Summaries. Riso National Laboratory, Denmark, 1994.
- Proceedings of International Conference on National Action to Mitigate Global Climate Change. Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994.
IPCC Special Reports: 
- The Regional Impacts of Climate Change: An Assessment of Vulnerability, 2000.
- Aviation and the Global Atmosphere, 2000.
- Methodological and Technological issues in Technology Transfer, 2000.
- Emissions Scenarios, 1999.
- Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry, 1999.
Software:
- Software developed by IPCC/OECD/IEA for preparation of GHG inventories.
- The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) – interactive desktop tool for manipulation and visualization of earth science data.
- Software MAGICC/SCENGEN (Model for the Assessment of Greenhouse-gas Induced Climate Change / SCENario GENerator) allows to investigate a future climate change.