ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the rules on state reporting and assessment under the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and the Protocol, the legal status of the rules, and the extent to which states have complied with their reporting and assessment obligations. The international climate change regime's rules on state reporting of mitigation actions and results form a complex web. Rules on reporting under the FCCC and the Kyoto Protocol are legally binding on parties, mostly on Annex I parties, but some of these rules are binding on all parties. The Kyoto Protocol is, in all matters, narrower in scope than the FCCC. The FCCC has a different set of guidelines for the national communications that are to be submitted by non-Annex I parties. The approach is markedly different, with the text of the relevant decision imbued with discretion and qualifications. As with national communications, the Kyoto Protocol's inventory requirements differ somewhat from the FCCC's.
