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ARTICLE-4: COMMITMENTS     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) Develop, periodically update, publish and make available to the Conference of the Parties, in accordance with Article 12, national inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, using comparable methodologies to be agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties; ...
... (c) Calculations of emissions by sources and removals by sinks of greenhouse gases for the purposes of subparagraph (b) above should take into account the best available scientific knowledge, including of the effective capacity of sinks and the respective contributions of such gases to climate change. The Conference of the Parties shall consider and agree on methodologies for these calculations at its first session and review them regularly thereafter; ...


ARTICLE-7: CONFERENCE OF THE PARTIES     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (d) Promote and guide, in accordance with the objective and provisions of the Convention, the development and periodic refinement of comparable methodologies, to be agreed on by the Conference of the Parties, inter alia, for preparing inventories of greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks, and for evaluating the effectiveness of measures to limit the emissions and enhance the removals of these gases; ...


ARTICLE-9: SUBSIDIARY BODY FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVICE     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (e) Respond to scientific, technological and methodological questions that the Conference of the Parties and its subsidiary bodies may put to the body. ...


ARTICLE-12: COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION RELATED TO IMPLEMENTATION     [go to this ARTICLE]
... (a) A national inventory of anthropogenic emissions by sources and removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not controlled by the Montreal Protocol, to the extent its capacities permit, using comparable methodologies to be promoted and agreed upon by the Conference of the Parties; ...