The Kyoto Protocol reporting and review process

Abstract

editorial: Annex I Parties1 to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) have recently submitted their 2012 annual emission inventories covering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the time period 1990–2010 (see UNFCCC, 2012). These submissions were due by 15 April 2012, by which time the opportunities to reduce real-world emissions before the end of the Kyoto commitment period (2008–2012) were almost ove