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The assessment of greenhouse gases (GHGs) emitted to and removed from the atmosphere is high on both political and scientific agendas internationally. As increasing international concern and cooperation aim at policy-oriented solutions to the climate change problem, several issues have begun to arise regarding verification and compliance under both proposed and legislated schemes meant to reduce the human-induced global climate impact. The approaches to addressing uncertainty introduced in this article attempt to improve national inventories or to provide a basis for the standardization of inventory estimates to enable comparison of emissions and emission changes across countries. Authors of the accompanying articles use detailed uncertainty analyses to enforce the current structure of the emission trading system and attempt to internalize high levels of uncertainty by tailoring the emissions trading market rules. Assessment of uncertainty can help improve inventories and manage risk. Through recognizing the importance of, identifying and quantifying uncertainties, great strides can be made in the process of Accounting for Climate Change.

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  1. ICF International, Washington, DC, USA
    Daniel Lieberman
  2. Forestry Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg, Australia
    Matthias Jonas
  3. Systems Research, Austrian Research Centers - ARC, A-1220, Vienna, Austria
    Wilfried Winiwarter
  4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
    Zbigniew Nahorski & Sten Nilsson

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  1. Daniel Lieberman
  2. Matthias Jonas
  3. Wilfried Winiwarter
  4. Zbigniew Nahorski
  5. Sten Nilsson

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Lieberman, D., Jonas, M., Winiwarter, W. et al. Accounting for Climate Change: Introduction.Water Air Soil Pollut: Focus 7, 421–424 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11267-006-9120-8

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