The urgency, complexity, and economic implications of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions demand strategic investments in science-based information for planning, implementing, and tracking the impact of emission reduction policies and actions. An increasing number of applications succeed by combining activity-based emissions data with atmospheric GHG measurements and analyses – this hybrid approach can yield additional insights and practical information on GHG emissions and removals at different scales. Inspired by this potential, the Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS) of the World Meteorological Organization works to identify and document good practice guidelines for creation and utilisation of decision-relevant information, while promoting scientific advances in methodologies and facilitating two-way linkages between practitioners and stakeholders.
This session continues to showcase how scientific data and analyses can be created, characterized and transformed into actionable information services for a wide range of user-communities.
This session seeks contributions from researchers, inventory compilers, government decision and policy makers, non-government and private sector service providers that produce or utilize science-based methods for detecting, quantifying, tracking GHG emissions using a combination of observations, activity-based emissions data and modelling and analysis tools. We especially welcome presentations of work guided by IG3IS good practice research guidelines at urban and national scale and for specific economic sectors. The scope of the session spans measurements of all GHGs and from all tiers of observation.