Examining the impact of GHG accounting principles

Clearly defined principles are essential elements of GHG accounting and reporting guidelines, protocols, standards to address the unavoidable expert judgments that must be applied ambiguities in these documents. The IPCC guidelines identify transparency, accuracy, completeness, (time series) consistency, comparability as its foundational data quality principles. conservativeness, relevance, see varied use across major references. These differences principles, especially with respect principle comparability, indicate there underlying problems many protocols now heavily referenced applied.