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IG3IS Project Guidelines: Objective #2

Process:

  • Please read through the IG3IS Implementation Plan to find guidance on how to design your project
  • Please carefully study the essential requirements for a IG3IS project to make sure that your project qualifies for one of the objectives
  • Fill in the application letter and send it by email and by ordinary post (a signed paper version) to: Dr. Oksana Tarasova (OTarasova@wmo.int) Chief, AER/WMO (application letter on last page of this document)
  • Your application will be considered by the IG3IS team and confirmation will be sent to you. Please kindly specify your contact details in the application
  • As soon as you get a confirmation of acceptance (about 1 month after application is received in the WMO Secretariat or longer if additional considerations are needed) details will be requested by IG3IS staff in order to publicize your project on the IG3IS website

Requirements:

There are four key IG3IS objectives identified in the IG3IS Science Implementation Plan (section 3 “IG3IS Objectives”). The first objective is to support the reduction of uncertainty in national emission inventory reporting to the UNFCCC. Second, is to provide information to governments and businesses that will help locate and quantify previously unknown emission reduction opportunities such as fugitive methane emissions from industrial sources. Third, is to support subnational government entities such as cities and states that represent large GHG source regions (e.g., megacities) with actionable information on their GHG emissions at the needed spatial, temporal and sectoral resolution to evaluate and guide progress towards emission reduction goals. Fourth, and finally, is to support the Paris Agreement’s global stock take as governments and the UNFCCC define their requirements.

The requirements for projects promoting each of the objectives is outlined below. In order to increase the ease of coordinating this application with the Implementation Plan, the objective requirements are organized by the same section headings as seen in the IG3IS Implementation Plan. Before submitting your application, please study these carefully to ensure that your project qualifies.

Essential Characteristics Needed for an Objective #2 Project (sections 4.2 - 4.4)

 

Requirements Regarding Section 4.2 of the IG3IS Implementation Plan: User-based Information Requirements, Current Capabilities and Gaps

  1. Identify what customer type your project is working with:
    • Regulators
    • Inventory builders
    • Oil and gas operators

 

Requirements Regarding Section 4.3 of the IG3IS Implementation Plan: Measurement Network Design and Modeling Framework

  1. Identify the scale of your project analysis:
    • Regional (100’s km)
    • Sub regional (10’s km)
    • Facility (100’s m to 1 km)
    • Site area/unit (100’s m)
    • Component (<1 m)
  2. Identify and describe the measurement methods your project utilizes. This could include, but is not limited to:
    • Satellite
    • Towers
    • Airborne
    • European Integrated Carbon Observation System (ICOS)
    • Airborne (in-situ)
    • Airborne (remote sensing)
    • Ground based
    • Mobile surveys
    • Optical remote sensing
    • Sniffing
    • Optical gas imaging
    • etc.
  3. Identify and describe the model methods your project utilizes. This could include, but is not limited to:
    • Regional inverse
    • Inverse dispersion
    • Hiflow
    • etc.
  4. For top-down methods of estimating methane emissions, one of the key challenges is attributing emissions of methane to one of the many possible sources, including oil and gas infrastructure. Please specifically explain how you addressed this issue

 

Requirements Regarding Section 4.4 of the IG3IS Implementation Plan: Capacity Building and Near Term Plans

  1. Prove that you have established open communication and partnerships between your project’s researchers and oil and gas industry operators in the region you are conducting your project
  2. Prove that you have established open communication and partnerships between your project’s researchers and oil and gas industry regulators both in the region you are operating, and its state and national levels
  3. Specify if your project is a part of one of the following initiatives already identified in the IG3IS implementation plan as opportunities to investigate the IG3IS methane objective:
    • MEthane goes MObile - MEsurements and MOdeling (MEMO2)
    • Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC) international oil and gas methane studies
  4. Specify and outline if and how your project is instituting future measurement support in order to provide routine, cost effective monitoring information that can be used by industry and other stakeholders to effectively reduce emissions such as when monitoring the efficacy of mitigation

 

Additional Essential Characteristics Needed for an Inverse Modeling (sections 6.2 & 6.5)

 

Requirements Regarding Section 6.2 of the IG3IS Implementation Plan: Development of inverse modelling techniques

  1. Verify that your inverse modelling method applies the Bayes theorem for quantifying uncertainties

 

Requirements Regarding Section 6.5 of the IG3IS Implementation Plan: First urban-scale experiments: demonstration of the approach

  1. Verify that your results can be supported by another inversion study/technique. This could be run by you, or come from the results of a project conducted by someone else
  2. Prove that you have conducted sensitivity experiments and uncertainty assessments with your inversion model