Yesterday at the Hague, delegates from over 160 nations began meeting to try to hammer out details of the 1997 Kyoto agreement which mandated that nations reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to pre-1990 levels by the year 2012. This sixth session of the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change will have to overcome significant obstacles if delegates are to emerge with an agreement within the...

This report, Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, was produced upon request by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report outlines "good practice guidance" suggestions, intended to help countries produce realistic inventories with as few uncertainties as is...