US National Academy report on Greenhouse Gas Information for Decision Making
- 1School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ USA (kevin.gurney@nau.edu)
- 2University of Illinois, Illinois, USA (wuebbles@illinois.edu)
- 3University of Massachusetts Boston and Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Boston, MA USA (kamal.bawa@gmail.com)
- 4Institute for Governance & Sustainable Development, Washington DC USA (gdreyfus@igsd.org)
- 5NASA JP (retired) (annmarie.eldering@gmail.com)
- 6Cheniere Energy Inc. USA (Fiji.George@cheniere.com)
- 7Imperial College London, UK (h.graven@imperial.ac.uk)
- 8University of North Carolina at Chapen Hill, NC USA (angel.hsu@unc.edu)
- 9Universities Space Research Association, USA (toda@usra.edu)
- 10Universitiy of Aix-Marseille, France (irene.xueref-remy@imbe.fr)
- 11National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington DC USA (RSilvern@nas.edu)
The National Academy of Sciences convened a committee to generate a report titled “Development of a Framework for Evaluating Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making”. The report:
- Described approaches used to develop global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories, including the use of surveys
- Discussed the potential uses and limitations of these approaches
- Provided a framework to evaluate emissions information and inventories
- Presented several case studies to demonstrate how the framework could be applied to evaluate emissions information and inventory approaches and identify strengths and opportunities for improvement for each case study.
- Identified ways to improve methodological transparency, sustainability and continuity of relevant observations, and product confidence in global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions inventories
To accomplish this the committee identified a series of “pillars” that were deemed ideal characteristics of GHG inventories for decisionmaking. Three dominant GHG inventory development approaches were identified from the existing work and ranked within the series of pillars. The committee made a series of recommendations for continued development of inventories to enhance their quality and utility to decisionmakers.
In this presentation I will describe the major content of the report, describing the evaluation matrix and a summary of the committee’s recommendations.
How to cite: gurney, K., Wuebbles, D., Bawa, K., Dreyfus, G., Eldering, A., george, F., graven, H., Hsu, A., Oda, T., Xueref-Remy, I., Silvern, R., Stoudt, A., McGovern, B., and Razafindrambinina, P.: US National Academy report on Greenhouse Gas Information for Decision Making, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-10862, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-10862, 2023.
