Add further CRF sector individuals to fully cover MMR template

[l-emele]

Description of the issue

As discussed today bilaterally with @han-f : We want to include further CRF sector individuals that we can cover the whole MMR table 1 in with member states provide their greenhouse gas projections (= scenarios) to the European Union.

Ideas of solution

If you already have ideas for the solution describe them here

Workflow checklist

• [ ] I discussed the issue with someone else than me before working on a solution
• [ ] I already read the latest version of the workflow for this repository
• [ ] The goal of this ontology is clear to me

I am aware that

• [ ] every entry in the ontology should have a definition
• [ ] classes should arise from concepts rather than from words

[l-emele]

The following table compares the structure of the MMR table 1 with the CRF sector individuals that we already have implemented (referenced by their unique individual identifiers.

Structure of MMR table 1	Unique individual identifier in OEO
Total excluding LULUCF
Total including LULUCF
1 Energy	CRF 1
1.A. Fuel combustion	CRF 1.A
1.A.1. Energy industries	CRF 1.A.1
1.A.1.a. Public electricity and heat production
1.A.1.b. Petroleum refining
1.A.1.c. Manufacture of solid fuels and other energy industries
1.A.2. Manufacturing industries and construction	CRF 1.A.2
1.A.3. Transport	CRF 1.A.3
1.A.3.a. Domestic aviation	CRF 1.A.3.a
1.A.3.b. Road transportation	CRF 1.A.3.b
1.A.3.c. Railways	CRF 1.A.3.c
1.A.3.d. Domestic navigation	CRF 1.A.3.d
1.A.3.e. Other transportation	CRF 1.A.3.e
1.A.4. Other sectors	CRF 1.A.4
1.A.4.a. Commercial/Institutional	CRF 1.A.4.a
1.A.4.b. Residential	CRF 1.A.4.b
1.A.4.c. Agriculture/Forestry/Fishing	CRF 1.A.4.c
1.A.5. Other
1.B. Fugitive emissions from fuels	CRF 1.B
1.B.1. Solid fuels
1.B.2. Oil and natural gas and other emissions from energy production
1.C. CO2 transport and storage	CRF 1.C
2 Industrial processes	CRF 2
2.A. Mineral Industry
2.A.1. Cement production
2.B. Chemical industry
2.C. Metal industry
2.C.1. Iron and steel production
2.D. Non-energy products from fuels and solvent use
2.E. Electronics industry
2.F. Product uses as substitutes for ODS (8)
2.G. Other product manufacture and use
2.H. Other
3 Agriculture	CRF 3
3.A. Enteric fermentation
3.B. Manure management
3.C. Rice cultivation
3.D. Agricultural soils
3.E. Prescribed burning of savannahs
3.F. Field burning of agricultural residues
3.G. Liming
3.H. Urea application
3.I. Other carbon-containing fertilizers
3.J. Other (please specify)
4 Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF, reported emissions and removals) (9)	CRF 4
4.A. Forest land
4.B. Cropland
4.C. Grassland
4.D. Wetlands
4.E. Settlements
4.F. Other Land
4.G. Harvested wood products
4.H. Other
5 Waste	CRF 5
5.A. Solid Waste Disposal
5.B. Biological treatment of solid waste
5.C. Incineration and open burning of waste
5.D. Wastewater treatment and discharge
5.E. Other (please specify)
Memo items
International bunkers
IB.Aviation
IB.Navigation
CO2 emissions from biomass
CO2 captured
Indirect CO2 (if available) (10)

For the definition of these sector individuals I propose the same approach as in PR #523: Copy & paste from the IPCC guidelines. That should work for the vast majority of the listed sectors but might be tricky for everything below memo items. But these are least priority an can be discussed case by case.

[han-f]

For Bunkers see #928

[l-emele]

I can add those.

[l-emele]

I think we should also define a separate MMR sector division. Something like The MMR sector division is a sector division defined in annex ###. It uses CRF sectors (IPCC 2006) and adds further sectors.

Then we could also describe things like 2.A. of which other non cement production which are specific to the MMR.

[han-f]

Yes, I think this is a good idea: The MMR sector division is a sector division defined in Annex XXV, Table 1a of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1208. It uses CRF sectors (IPCC 2006) and adds further sectors.

Does the link I added work, meaning it jumps to Annex XXV when clicked?

[l-emele]

No, that kind of masked linking does not work, but we can add the link e.g. as editor note.

In the table, you list: 1.A.5. Other. However, that is already included as CRF sector (IPCC 2006): fuel combustion - other. It is labelled that way as almost every top level sector (CRF 2, 3, ...) has it own other sector and there also exists a top level other, which is CRF sector (IPCC 2006): other (CRF 6).

[l-emele]

PR #941 will solve most of the missing sectors from the tables.

For Total excluding LULUCF, Total including LULUCF, International bunkers and IB.Aviation see #928.

This leaves for this issue: Memo items, CO2 emissions from biomass, CO2 captured and Indirect CO2.

The concept of a memo item cannot be found in the IPCC guidelines.

[l-emele]

I don't think that memo items is a sector as the sum of all emissions in the memo items does not give a useful quantity (except of the sum of all emissions that were excluded). I see memo item itself more as a property of some sectors: the property of being excluded or treated differently or something like that.

@stap-m : Any suggestions to define such a property?

[l-emele]

Proposals for the missing memo items sector individuals:

• CRF sector (IPCC 2006): 'CO2 emissions from biomass' is a sector defined by the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: CO2 emissions from biomass combustion are not included in national totals, but are recorded as an information item for cross-checking purposes as well as avoiding double counting. (2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 2, Chapter 1, https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)
• CRF sector (IPCC 2006): 'CO2 captured' is a sector defined by the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: It encompasses the total amount of CO2 captured for storage. (2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 2, Chapter 5.9, https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)
• CRF sector (IPCC 2006): 'Indirect CO2' is a sector defined by the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: It encompasses Methane, carbon monoxide (CO) or NMVOC emissions that will eventually be oxidised to CO2 in the atmosphere. (2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, Volume 1, Chapter 7.2.1.5, https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/)

Regarding memo item: What about defining it as a quality?

• A memo item is a quality of a sector that describes that the sector is excluded from some kind of total and only reported to provide further information (memo).

@han-f @stap-m : What do you think of these proposals, especially of the proposal for memo item?

[l-emele]

@han-f @stap-m : Any comments on my last proposals?

[han-f]

Apologies for replying so late. I think they all read good, thank you.

[stap-m]

I am sorry, I somehow missed that issue, although you mentioned me several times.

quality is a specifically dependent continuant and the bearer should be an independent continuant. sector is a generically dependent continuant though.

My first idea is to make memo item an information content entity instead that is about some sector?!

[l-emele]

Defining memo item as A memo item is an information content entity about a sector that describes that the sector is excluded from some kind of total and only reported to provide further information (memo). with the axiom 'memo item' 'is about' some 'sector' would be only half of the solution.

We would additionally need an inverse relation of is about to connect some sector individuals to memo item. Something like has information content entity: A relation that relates an entity to an information artifact. with the range information content entity. This would then be a generalised version and thus a parent of has quantity value (A relation between an entity and a quantity value.).

Then we could replace the axiom 'has quality' some 'memo item' of the memo items individuals with 'has information contenty entity' some 'memo item'.

[stap-m]

Why not create a "sibling relation" to has quantity value, which is has memo item that only hold for sectors and memo items? I think is about doesn't necessarily have to have only one inverse relation.

[l-emele]

That is a good idea with adding a special relation for that. However, I would like to add the has information content entity as parent for both these relations.

[l-emele]

Something seemingly unrelated, but related because we touch the properties: has global warming potential should be a subproperty of has quantity value and a sub-subproperty of has information content entity as global warming potential is a subclass of quantity value and a sub-subclass of information content entity.

So in the end that part of the cleaned up properties structure will look like this:

• has information content entity
  • has memo item
  • has quantity value
  • has global warming potential
  • has typical computation time

[stap-m]

From my perspective you can include this into PR #967

[l-emele]

That was my intentions. I just wanted to do it transparently and this is why I wrote it at all. 😉