Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information for Decision Making A Framework Going Forward (2022) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
5 Recommendations
5 Recommendations
Pages 93-104
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 93... ...
For example, stakeholders in countries within Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania (excluding Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Israel) often lack sustained funding to develop and maintain technical capacity for regular GHG emissions information development and reporting.
|
From page 94... ...
Furthermore, hybrid approaches, detailed below, could have the benefit of integrating GHG emissions information across all scales, improving both the provisioning of GHG emissions information and decision making. Lastly, the committee recognizes the varying capabilities and constraints of different members of the global community and that the different decision-making phases -- planning, tracking, and assessment and verification -- will have different needs.
|
From page 95... ...
Advancing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information Capabilities, Trust, and Accessibility Greenhouse gas emissions information development and evaluation should strive to align with the six pillars: usability and timeliness, information transparency, evaluation and validation, completeness, inclusivity, and communication. The "pillars" presented in Chapter 4 -- usability and timeliness, information transparency, evaluation and validation, completeness, inclusivity, and communication -- provide a way to evaluate individual emissions datasets and approaches, as illustrated through the case studies.
|
From page 96... ...
A mechanism that brings different types of information together could facilitate the integration of multiple types of data at various spatial scales and make the information accessible in a timely manner to decision makers in ways that meet their needs. Such a clearinghouse or federated data center could establish standards and practices that enable decision makers and other data users to clearly and quickly grasp individual characteristics, comprehensiveness, transparency and traceability to source material, and citations for the wide range of GHG emissions information.
|
From page 97... ...
Modeling codes are not often available, and datasets, including those produced by the private sector, are often behind paywalls and may not include information about the sources of the data. Addressing Key Data and Information Gaps and Uncertainties Greenhouse gas emissions information (e.g., observations, data analysis, activity data, emission factors)
|
From page 98... ...
The Committee recognizes the need to improve both the specific representativeness and resolution across the globe of these key underlying data drivers to strengthen the completeness and accuracy of GHG emissions information. Examples include emission factors that are often fuel averages (i.e., missing true coal quality variation or biomass variation)
|
From page 99... ...
Accelerating the transition of research to operations will require scientists, research funders, and data users to identify ways to lower existing barriers to that transition and ways to make new data products more immediately usable. The clearinghouse or federated repository recommended above, along with alignment with the pillars, should help make new GHG emissions information usable more quickly.
|
From page 100... ...
approaches and datasets would provide more accurate GHG emissions information by integrating different types of information with more granularity. Some of this work has begun and includes new machine learning and other nonparametric numerical techniques that leverage new data from private and public satellites, sensors, and other types of activities.
|
From page 101... ...
Ensuring Usability, Timeliness, and Effective Communication of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Information Greenhouse gas emissions information generators, decision makers, and global stakeholders should engage in an iterative process in a timely manner to ensure the information provided is relevant and useful. Incorporating decision-maker input is critical for information developed to respond to the policy needs of stakeholders and decision makers.
|
From page 102... ...
Many avenues of engagement, through for example public comment periods, stakeholders workshops, or citizen science data collection opportunities, would enhance GHG emissions information quality and usability.
|
From page 103... ...
A better understanding of the net emissions and associated changes in atmospheric fluxes at all spatial scales is essential for analyzing atmospheric concentration changes for all GHGs and considerations of potential future policy actions. This enhanced understanding will be important to climate plans for all spatial scales, especially with many such planning analyses already beginning to integrate the natural and biogenic components into their inventories; those analyses need more guidance and an enhanced capacity for developing accurate estimates.
|
From page 104... ...
In addition, the report includes a number of recommendations toward significantly advancing the accuracy of emissions inventories by better accounting for all available observations and information, while also improving the understanding of the role of human activities in GHG emissions. By examining existing inventories and future needs, the hope is that this report will help push us all forward in assisting the future decision-making process.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.