Sunday, January 31, 2016

Article 7 

1. Each Party included in Annex I shall incorporate in its annual inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, submitted in accordance with the relevant decisions of the Conference of the Parties, the necessary supplementary information for the purposes of ensuring compliance with Article 3, to be determined in accordance with paragraph 4 below. 

The report below is from 1991 and begins to list greenhouse gases, their sources and Earth's sinks.

There have been (click here) no major changes in our understanding of greenhouse gases since the 1990 Scientific Assessment for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1990). While most of the key uncertainties identified in IPCC (1990) remain unresolved, there have been a number of important advances....

2. Each Party included in Annex I shall incorporate in its national communication, submitted under Article 12 of the Convention, the supplementary information necessary to demonstrate compliance with its commitments under this Protocol, to be determined in accordance with paragraph 4 below. 

I think that is an important aspect to the Montreal Protocol that needs to be repeated with greenhouse gases. The American people were involved in defeating the climate crisis while it's government pretended it didn't exist. In the case of an American commitment to the Paris Agreement, the advances in satisfying the goals need to be made public annual to the people of the USA and all other countries around the world. Earth is a collective effort. Others have a right know where it is succeeding and failing and WHY.

3. Each Party included in Annex I shall submit the information required under paragraph 1 above annually, beginning with the first inventory due under the Convention for the first year of the commitment period after this Protocol has entered into force for that Party. Each such Party shall submit the information required under paragraph 2 above as part of the first national communication due under the Convention after this Protocol has entered into force for it and after the adoption of guidelines as provided for in paragraph 4 below. The frequency of subsequent submission of information required under this Article shall be determined by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol, taking into account any timetable for the submission of national communications decided upon by the Conference of the Parties. 

The IPCC, the Executive Committee of the Paris Agreement need a cyber resource to link efforts to reporting and results.

4. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall adopt at its first session, and review periodically thereafter, guidelines for the preparation of the information required under this Article, taking into account guidelines for the preparation of national communications by Parties included in Annex I adopted by the Conference of the Parties. The Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to this Protocol shall also, prior to the first commitment period, decide upon modalities for the accounting of assigned amounts.