IG3IS Stakeholder Consultation - Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)
In the race to carbon neutrality it is paramount to ensure that mitigation policies and investment are performing efficiently and abating emissions in the most effective manner, thus, monitoring of such performance will be an indispensable step to guarantee not only successful mitigation actions, but also assertive climate finance flows.
IG3IS combines atmospheric GHG concentration measurements with human-activity data in a modelling and analysis framework to help decision-makers take better informed action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and pollutants that reduce air quality. As a user oriented initiative, IG3IS will keep consulting with critical stakeholders the path forward to tailor its capabilities to their needs.
This was the second episode of a series of consultations that brought together users, scientists and civil society to discuss on how to upscale IG3IS activities across countries, regions, cities and sectors and reflected on examples of the successful utilization of observation-based information to guide climate action.
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Welcome Remarks & Introduction |
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Oksana Tarasova - Head, Atmospheric Environment Research Division, World Meteorological Organization |
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Jocelyn Turnbull - Senior Scientist, GNS Science (IG3IS Co-Chair) |
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Initial Presentations (50 mins) |
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Stakeholders |
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Ministry of Environment of Paraguay Ulises Lovera, Climate Change Director Stephanie Petta, Chief of Inventories and Reports Celeste González, Third Biennial Update Report Coordinator |
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São Paulo State Environmental Protection Agency Josilene Ticianelli Vannuzini Ferrer, Advisor on Climate Change of the Presidency of CETESB |
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Scientific Capabilities |
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Philip Ciais, Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (Bottom-up approach) |
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Erik Andersson, European Commission – Copernicus, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (Satellite information) |
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Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research of New Zealand (Top-down approach) |
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Panel Discussion (35 mins) |
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Luciana Gatti, Group Leader, National Institute of Space Research / Center of Earth System Science (LaGEE, INPE/CCST) |
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Rona Thompson, Norsk Institutt for Luftforskning – NILU, Kjeller, Norway |
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Gayane Shahnazaryan, Deputy Director of the Hydrometeorology and Monitoring Center of the Ministry of Environment, Republic of Armenia |
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Mario Boccucci, Head UN-REDD Programme Secretariat |
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Dr. Syaiful Anwar, Director of the Directorate for Greenhouse Gases Inventory and Monitoring, Reporting and Verification, Indonesia |
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Closing Remarks |
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Phil DeCola - Adjunct Professor, University of Maryland / Chief Executive and Science Officer, GIST.earth, (IG3IS Co-Chair) |
The Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS), spearheaded by the World Meteorological Organization’s Global Atmosphere Watch programme, is moving towards a broader implementation, following the approval of its Science Implementation Plan by the WMO Executive Council in June 2018, and building on the outcomes of its first Symposium and User Summit in November 2018.
The IG3IS science implementation plan supports the development and use of inverse modelling for emission estimates and to ensure that these estimates are reliable and consistent representations of what is observed in the atmosphere. Such consistency will be established through the series of the benchmarking exercise following the recommendations of the first workshop in Lund, Sweden, and the second second scientific symposium of the WMO IG3IS held in Paris, France during last October 2019.