This book is based on the 2014 Special Issue 124(3) of Climatic Change. It brings together 16
key papers presented at or produced subsequent to the 2010 (3rd) International Workshop on
Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. The Workshop was jointly organized by the Lviv
Polytechnic National University Ukraine the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy
of Sciences and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Austria. This book
has been written to enhance understanding of the uncertainty encountered in estimating
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and in dealing with the challenges resulting from those
estimates. Such challenges include but are not limited to i) monitoring emissions ii)
adhering to emission commitments iii) securing the proper functioning of emission trading
markets and iv) meeting low-carbon or low-GHG futures in the long term. The approaches to
addressing uncertainty discussed by all authors attempt to improve national inventories not
only for their own sake but also from a wider systems analytical perspective that seeks to
strengthen their usefulness under a compliance and or global monitoring and reporting
framework. These approaches show the challenges and benefits of including inventory uncertainty
in policy analysis and where advances are being made.
