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2019 Refinement

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2019 Refinement Drafts and Review Comments

The drafts of the 2019 Refinement that were submitted for the different stages of the IPCC review process, review comments on these drafts, and author responses to these comments are available below.

Please take note of the following:

Under IPCC procedures authors are required to take account of all substantive review comments in both review rounds. Thus, responses to individual comments may be influenced by comments from other reviewers.
Entries of "-" indicate that a particular section or chapter was not subject to review.
"General Review Comments" are review comments that are on the entire 2019 Refinement or apply to multiple sections.
Please direct all your queries to the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC TFI at:

Section/Chapter	Expert Review		Government and Expert Review			Submission of Written Comments by Governments
Section/Chapter	First Order Draft (FOD)	FOD Review Comment Sheets with authors’ responses	Second Order Draft (SOD)	SOD Review Comments Sheets with authors’ responses (Reviewers)	SOD Review Comments Sheets with authors’ responses (Governments)	Final Draft (FD)	FD Review Comments Sheets with authors’ responses
Overview Chapter	–	–
Glossary	–	–
General Review Comments	–		–			–
Volume 1: General Guidance and Reporting
Volume 2: Energy
Volume 3: Industrial Processes and Product Use
Volume 4: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use
Volume 5: Waste

2019 Refinement Review Editor Reports

As defined in the Procedures for the Preparation, Review, Acceptance, Adoption, Approval and Publication of IPCC Reports, the role of the Review Editors in production of an IPCC Report is, among others, to ensure that all substantive expert and government review comments are afforded appropriate consideration, advise lead authors on how to handle contentious/controversial issues and ensure genuine controversies are reflected adequately in the text of the Report.

This document is a compilation of reports submitted by the Review Editors of the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (2019 Refinement) in accordance with the IPCC Procedures. The Review Editors' reports are part of the quality control of the review process of the IPCC Report. They are not intended to be additional reviews of the content of the drafts of the 2019 Refinement.

Review Editor Reports