The Secretariat of UNFCCC published a carbon footprint of its activities in 2006, covering 2004 and 2005. That footprint contained multiple material errors and has been removed from the UNFCCC website.
The greenhouse gas emissions of UNFCCC were about 25,000 tCO2 per year. In the 2008 carbon footprint this has apparently been reduced to 1,687.2 tCO2. How did they do it? I mean, even if you offset the emissions they still occurred. Did they ground all staff? Do they have their own fleet of biofuel-powered airplanes? Note also the precision - in 0.1 tCO2. Emission factors of IPCC have only 3 significant digits, and therefore the calculated CO2 emissions cannot have more than 3 significant digits either.CER issuance times continue to rise
The UNFCCC website contains a list of the 1799 issuances that took place sofar.
The time between end of monitoring period and the issuance has risen to 300 days [median]. Of these 300 days, the project developer needs about 30 [waiting for the final data to become available, writing monitoring report]. The remaining 9 months are spent in the verification and the UNFCCC system. The monitoring reports of the last issuances were written 6 - 9 months ago; new Executive Boards procedures introduced in the last few months may further slow down the issuance process.

