Uncertainties In Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Expanding Our Perspective
by Matthias Jonas /
2015 / English / PDF
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This book is based on the 2014 Special Issue 124(3) of Climatic
Change. It brings together 16 key papers presented at, or produced,
subsequent to the 2010 (3rd) International Workshop on Uncertainty
in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. The Workshop was jointly
organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine; the
Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences; and
the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria.
This book has been written to enhance understanding of the
uncertainty encountered in estimating greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and in dealing with the challenges resulting from those
estimates. Such challenges include, but are not limited to i)
monitoring emissions; ii) adhering to emission commitments; iii)
securing the proper functioning of emission trading markets; and
iv) meeting low-carbon or low-GHG futures in the long term. The
approaches to addressing uncertainty discussed by all authors
attempt to improve national inventories, not only for their own
sake but also from a wider, systems analytical perspective that
seeks to strengthen their usefulness under a compliance and/or
global monitoring and reporting framework. These approaches show
the challenges and benefits of including inventory uncertainty in
policy analysis and where advances are being made.
This book is based on the 2014 Special Issue 124(3) of Climatic
Change. It brings together 16 key papers presented at, or produced,
subsequent to the 2010 (3rd) International Workshop on Uncertainty
in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventories. The Workshop was jointly
organized by the Lviv Polytechnic National University, Ukraine; the
Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences; and
the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria.
This book has been written to enhance understanding of the
uncertainty encountered in estimating greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions and in dealing with the challenges resulting from those
estimates. Such challenges include, but are not limited to i)
monitoring emissions; ii) adhering to emission commitments; iii)
securing the proper functioning of emission trading markets; and
iv) meeting low-carbon or low-GHG futures in the long term. The
approaches to addressing uncertainty discussed by all authors
attempt to improve national inventories, not only for their own
sake but also from a wider, systems analytical perspective that
seeks to strengthen their usefulness under a compliance and/or
global monitoring and reporting framework. These approaches show
the challenges and benefits of including inventory uncertainty in
policy analysis and where advances are being made.