2nd International Workshop on Uncertainties in Greenhouse Gas Inventories

The issues of concern at the 1st International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories, held September 24-25, 2004, in Warsaw, Poland, rooted in the level of confidence with which national emission assessments can be performed, as well as the management of uncertainty and its role in developing informed policy. The 1st Workshop covered state-of-the-art research and developments in accounting, verifying and trading of GHG emissions and provided a multidisciplinary forum for international experts to address the methodological uncertainties underlying these activities. The topics of interest covered national GHG emission inventories, bottom-up versus top-down emission analyses, signal processing and detection, verification and compliance, and emission trading schemes.

In the meantime, researchers grow increasingly suspicious about these and other uncertainty issues. In a follow-up workshop, jointly organized by the Austrian-based International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis and the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, international experts are invited to address uncertainty issues concerning:

- Achieving reliable national GHG inventories
- Accounting emissions across spatial scales (project, national, regional/continental)
- Bottom-up versus top-down emission analyses
- Detecting and analyzing emission changes
- Reconciling short-term commitments and long-term targets
- Verification and compliance
- Trading emissions
- Communicating, negotiating and effectively using uncertainty.

The 2nd International Workshop on Uncertainty in Greenhouse Gas Inventories will take place at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria.