UNFCCC, partner open application for GHG inventory training

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Greenhouse Gas Inventory and Research Centre of Korea (GIR) on April 1, 2017 opened application for the professional training programme on the transparency of climate action and support.

Announced in March, the training programme, called UNFCCC-GIR-CASTT, will run from June 26 to July 20, 2017 in Seoul, Republic of Korea. The programme seeks to provide professional training on greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories to national experts from developing countries.

Government officials, consultants and researchers in GHG or in climate change response-related fields are encouraged to apply by 6 May. Selected applicants will be notified by 17 May, with the program beginning on 26 June in Republic of Korea.

GHG inventories are a key source of information necessary to understand where each country, and the global community at large, stand in terms of GHG emissions. As such, it is imperative to boost the technical capacity of developing countries. The programme therefore anticipates that participants will walk away with the theoretical and practical methods needed to take transformative action in regards to GHG and climate action.