Germany ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC, 1992) and the Kyoto-Protocol (UNFCCC, 1997) under electing the articles 3.3 (LULUCF) and 3.4 (Forest Management) additionally. For these international climate reporting schemes not only improved estimates of carbon stock and carbon stock changes must be specified but also the estimation of their uncertainties. Therefore, methods are purposed in the Good Practice Guidance (GPG) for LULUCF (IPCC, 2003) and the Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (IPCC, 2000) to quantify GPG conform errors, like errors in definitions, in classifications, in models, measurement and sampling errors. |
