Events

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.  

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.  

Summary of Purpose  (Jocelyn Turnbull, Phil DeCola)

IG3IS aims to coordinate an integrated global greenhouse gas information system, linking inventory and flux model based information with atmospheric observations and modelling, to provide the best possible estimates of greenhouse gas emissions at the national and urban scales.  Linkages to stakeholders and policy outcomes are a critical goal of IG3IS.  The IG3IS Implementation Plan outlines the IG3IS ambition at a broad scale.   

Under the WWF initiative One Planet City Challenge, WWF and WMO designed a 3- part webinar series to showcase success stories where local governments use the best available scientific information as a basis for decision making aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions and climate risks and improving urban air quality.

The Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG3IS) - Transcom workshop and IG3IS science team Meeting was held in Paris, France from 15-18 October 2019.

To help meet this need, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and its partners have initiated the development of an Integrated Global Greenhouse Gas Information System (IG³IS). 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.

IG³IS and the Atmospheric Tracer Transport Model Intercomparison Project (TRANSCOM) have come together to create a workshop dedicated to the use of atmospheric measurements to improve the quantification and understanding of greenhouse gas fluxes. This meeting will facilitate the discussion new developments, remaining bottlenecks, and how to take advantage of international cooperation and coordinated joint activities to support progress. Furthermore, it will provide an overview of various ongoing activities and the opportunity to discuss or even initiate something new.

At this year's LACCF hosted in Montevideo, Uruguay, IG³IS has been invited to present on its successful pilot projects in the region and discuss potential for IG³IS involvement in the region in the future. On Wednesday, the 22nd of August, IG³IS will host a side event titled, "Innovative Observation-Based Tools to Support Climate Mitigation Strategies" including presentations from the World Bank and the Brazilian Environmental Agency.