The urgency, complexity, and economic implications of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions demand strategic investments in science-based information for planning, implementing, and tracking 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 to support mitigation efforts 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 informing decisions, while promoting scientific advances and facilitating two-way linkages between practitioners and stakeholders in the policy realm, tailoring research actions to meet policy needs.
Since EGU18, this session continues to showcase how scientific data and analyses can be transformed into actionable information services and successful climate solutions for a wide range of user-communities. Actionable information results from data with the required spatial and temporal granularity and compositional details able to explicitly target, attribute and track GHG emissions and reductions where climate action is achievable.
This session seeks contributions from researchers, inventory compilers, government decision and policy makers, non-government and private sector service providers that show the use and impact of science-based methods for detecting, quantifying, tracking GHG emissions and the resulting climate mitigation. 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.