Practical policy applications of uncertainty analysis for national greenhouse gas inventories

Accounting for Climate Change: Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories - Verification, Compliance, and Trading

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 31-54

  Gillenwater, M ^a   Sussman, F ^b   Cohen, J ^b  

^a Environmental Resources Trust   (United States)

^b ICF INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

adjustment; data quality; emissions; greenhouse gas; inventory; Kyoto Protocol; trading ratio; uncertainty; uncertainty analysis; UNFCCC

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960083630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5930-8_4     Document Type: Chapter

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