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Verifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Methods to Support International Climate Agreements
Contributor(s): National Research Council (Author), Division on Earth and Life Studies (Author), Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climat (Author)
ISBN: 0309152119     ISBN-13: 9780309152112
Publisher: National Academies Press
OUR PRICE:   $38.95  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | Global Warming & Climate Change
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
- Science | Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
Dewey: 363.738
LCCN: 2010926783
Physical Information: 0.2" H x 8.4" W x 10.9" (0.75 lbs) 110 pages
 
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The world's nations are moving toward agreements that will bind us together in an effort to limit future greenhouse gas emissions. With such agreements will come the need for all nations to make accurate estimates of greenhouse gas emissions and to monitor changes over time. In this context, the present book focuses on the greenhouse gases that result from human activities, have long lifetimes in the atmosphere and thus will change global climate for decades to millennia or more, and are currently included in international agreements. The book devotes considerably more space to CO2 than to the other gases because CO2 is the largest single contributor to global climate change and is thus the focus of many mitigation efforts. Only data in the public domain were considered because public access and transparency are necessary to build trust in a climate treaty.

The book concludes that each country could estimate fossil-fuel CO2 emissions accurately enough to support monitoring of a climate treaty. However, current methods are not sufficiently accurate to check these self-reported estimates against independent data or to estimate other greenhouse gas emissions. Strategic investments would, within 5 years, improve reporting of emissions by countries and yield a useful capability for independent verification of greenhouse gas emissions reported by countries.