Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement: how can the research community effectively contribute?

Lucia  Perugini; Guido  Pellis; Giacomo Grassi; Philippe Ciais; Han  Dolman; Joanna I. House; Glen Peters; Pete Smith; Dirk  Günther; Philippe  Peylin

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.012

Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement: how can the research community effectively contribute?

Lucia Perugini, Guido Pellis, Giacomo Grassi, Philippe Ciais, Han Dolman, Joanna I. House, Glen Peters, Pete Smith, Dirk Günther, Philippe Peylin

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Abstract

“If you can't measure it, you can't improve it”. This concept is also true within the context of climate policy, where the achievement of the objectives of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is dependent on the ability of the international community to accurately measure greenhouse gas (GHG) emission trends and, consequently, to alter these trends.The reporting of GHG emissions under the UNFCCC aims to provide transparent, accurate, complete, consistent and comparable GHG estimates through national inventories. These national GHG inventories represent essential links between science and policy-making, providing fundamental data to inform domestic and global actions on climate change (Swart et al., 2007; Damassa and Elsayed, 2013; Pulles, 2017).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	116-126
Number of pages	11
Journal	Environmental Science & Policy
Volume	122
Early online date	5 May 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2021.04.012
Publication status	Published - Aug 2021

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Acknowledgments
This work was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme project VERIFY [grant agreement No 776810]. A special thanks must be given to Sebastian Wunderlich (UBA, Germany), for his support on data interpretation. We also thank Paul Ruyssenaars (RVIM, Netherlands), Marina Vitullo (ISPRA, Italy), Colas Robert and Céline Gueguen (CITEPA, France), Maria Purzner (EAA, Austria), Rasmus Astrup (NIBIO, Norway), Ann Marie Ryan (EMPA, Ireland) and Margreet Van Zanten for their support in the terminology analysis and fruitful exchange during the course of the VERIFY project.

Keywords

Climate change
Research contribution
Developing countries
GHG inventory
Emission estimates
atmospheric observations

UN SDGs

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Emerging reporting and verification needs under the Paris Agreement: how can the research community effectively contribute?

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