Clearly defined principles are essential elements of GHG accounting and reporting guidelines, protocols, standards to address the unavoidable expert judgments that must be applied ambiguities in these documents. The IPCC guidelines identify transparency, accuracy, completeness, (time series) consistency, comparability as its foundational data quality principles. conservativeness, relevance, see...

Abstract How should one understand comparisons in which neither of two alternatives is at least as good the other? Much recent literature on comparability problems focuses what appropriate explanation phenomenon is. Is it due to vagueness or possibility non-conventional comparative relations such parity? This paper argues that discussions how best explain has reached an impasse hard make any pr...